Jan Schakowsky Quotes

American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.

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• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Fun
  • More
  • Conclusion

• When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Relationship

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Couple
  • Makeup
  • Cry

• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Look

• A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Affection

• I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Now
  • Inspire

• It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Easier

• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Style
  • Effort

• No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Life
  • Art
  • Why

• That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.

  

  Norm Crosby
  • Comedy
  • Changing
  • Fresh

• If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.

  

  Peter Benchley
  • Live
  • Mountain
  • River

• I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

  

  Jerzy Kosinski
  • Time
  • Why
  • Travel

• A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • American
  • Comedy
  • Tired

• American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • World
  • Children
  • American