Bresha Webb Quotes

It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, and I'm really happy for my downs, too. I'm really thankful.

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• I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Myself
  • Feel
  • One Word

• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Things
  • Test
  • Certainty

• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Childhood
  • Early

• A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Way
  • Best
  • How

• He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Power
  • Devil
  • Empathy

• Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Man
  • Fact
  • Hunter

• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Imagination
  • Happiness

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • Done
  • High

• I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Body
  • Fat
  • Goat

• My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Real
  • She
  • Comedy

• I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • World
  • House
  • Community

• Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • American
  • Study
  • Competition

• Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Moving
  • Humanity
  • Leaving

• What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Real
  • Want

• I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • People
  • School
  • Influence

• As athletes, the biggest asset that we bring to the workplace is our work ethic, our confidence, our never-say-die attitude. We're about winning.

  

  Katrina Adams
  • Work
  • Die
  • Confidence

• If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

  

  Ivan Lendl
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Become

• It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, and I'm really happy for my downs, too. I'm really thankful.

  

  Bresha Webb
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Thankful