Jameela Jamil Quotes

I find it infuriating that in this industry, size 10 and above is defined as 'plus size,' especially when the average dress size in the U.K. is a 16.

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• When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Short
  • Early

• It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Clever

• ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Grief

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Choices
  • Tears
  • Product

• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Independence

• People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Glasses
  • Diamonds
  • Pearls

• As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • High
  • Success

• I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Done
  • Night

• Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Reading
  • Animal
  • Almost

• My favorite thing about being engaged is your partner knowing what you want. For us, we love going out to eat.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Want
  • Partner
  • Knowing

• I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Responsibility
  • Actions
  • Cnn

• Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • American
  • Responsibility

• When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Parents

• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Four
  • Daughters
  • Five

• If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Love

• I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Moon
  • Television

• We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and other technologies, and of course it brings more pollution to our air, to nature. And I think the idea of the Kraftwerk song is people should not be very much mechanized or to be a machine in the world of machines. The idea is to try to find a golden middle between the world of nature and the world of machines.

  

  Albert Kuvezin
  • Nature
  • Machines
  • Pollution

• The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People

• They, the women, were like the gargoyles, Mattie thought. Respected in words, but hidden from view of those who ran the city and managing to live in the darkness, in the secret interstices of life.

  

  Ekaterina Sedia
  • Words
  • Secret
  • Darkness

• The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • America
  • War
  • Alone

• In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Education
  • Purpose

• I find it infuriating that in this industry, size 10 and above is defined as 'plus size,' especially when the average dress size in the U.K. is a 16.

  

  Jameela Jamil