MaryJanice Davidson Quotes

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

MaryJanice Davidson

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• I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Taste
  • Away
  • Classic

• I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!

  

  Lara Stone
  • Great
  • Girl
  • Evil

• A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Good Idea

• When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Real
  • Help
  • Know

• Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Reality
  • Performance

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • People
  • Party
  • Fashion

• I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • Running

• Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Done
  • Golf

• In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Identity
  • Performance

• It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Father
  • Death
  • Funny

• In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

  

  Om Puri
  • Know
  • Lost
  • Theatre

• The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Cute
  • Life Is Too Short

• I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Country
  • Family
  • High

• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.

  

  R. K. Milholland
  • Time

• It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.

  

  Neil Jackson
  • Work
  • Long
  • Remember

• Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Law
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• I am just an ordinary Catholic.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Catholic

• Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.

  

  Lou Boudreau
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Game

• I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

  

  MaryJanice Davidson
  • Funny