Dree Hemingway Quotes

I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

Dree Hemingway

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• If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Good
  • True

• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

  

  Beck
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Piano

• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Why
  • Space
  • Always

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Universe
  • Two
  • Stupidity

• As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Best
  • Emotional

• The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Career
  • Literature

• Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sex
  • Dog
  • Leaving

• Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Star

• I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Write

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• My wife watches me like a hawk.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Like

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • American
  • College

• My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Person
  • Senator
  • Wisconsin

• I started doing visual effects for many years, and after that, I became an actor.

  

  Rana Daggubati
  • Started
  • Effects
  • Became

• I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

  

  David Ogden Stiers

• Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering ‘l.’ Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Together

• When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Failure

• I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • People
  • Experience
  • Career