Jami Gertz Quotes

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Money
  • Mean
  • Scary

• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Truth
  • You
  • Woman

• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Law
  • Quality

• I know I look super young.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Know
  • Look
  • Young

• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
  • Better
  • Writer

• I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strength

• When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Learn

• Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Man
  • Individual
  • Become

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Violence

• My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Football
  • Player
  • Brother

• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Job
  • Husband

• I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Money

• I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

  

  Tana French
  • Religious
  • Need
  • Belief

• Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Control
  • Marketing
  • Measure

• I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our business, and we had grown substantially here.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe
  • Business

• 'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • She
  • Age
  • Funny

• If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Truth
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Long
  • Kill

• So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • Age
  • Missing