Paula Garces Quotes

It's definitely thrilling to know that you studied for something, and then you went in, and tried to do your best, and then somebody dug what you did.

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• 'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • City
  • Thought
  • Marble

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Accept
  • Rejection

• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Black
  • Know

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Me
  • Die

• To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Great
  • Job

• My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Energy

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have to play a different game than men play, and you have to be a lot cleverer.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Time
  • War
  • Acting

• Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • God
  • Truth
  • Word

• My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Different
  • Real
  • Done

• The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • She
  • Man
  • Woman

• Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• What’s happening to families at the border right now is a humanitarian crisis. Every parent who has ever held a child in their arms, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency, should be outraged.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Compassion

• Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Hate

• That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplifications of our culture.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Money
  • Culture

• I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • True

• I think some of you have to go through the pain of being rejected, the pain of being attacked on television, and ultimately there are people at home who are rooting for you and are wondering why more people don't defend what they stand up for.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

  

  Cy Coleman

• I wanted to explore Korean-American characters. And 'Columbus' did address that. The father-son dynamic felt very real to me.

  

  John Cho
  • Real
  • American
  • Father

• It's definitely thrilling to know that you studied for something, and then you went in, and tried to do your best, and then somebody dug what you did.

  

  Paula Garces