Jane Lindskold Quotes

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

Jane Lindskold

• People
• Time

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • Year
  • Old

• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • House
  • Working
  • Office

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
  • Liked
  • Rembrandt

• I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Movie

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• 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

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Mind
  • Done
  • War

• There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Age
  • Sex
  • Better

• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Teaching
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Feet

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• We have had conversations with Lucasfilm, and we continue to have them. I think it would be wonderful to extend that brand onto our programming.

  

  Channing Dungey

• My point is that you cannot force social change at a speed that it cannot go. Social change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Deep social change takes time. And slowly the culture is changing. The MTV generation is far more tolerant, and that tolerance is growing.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Growing

• People of African descent, most of us grew up accepting and loving Spider-Man. I still love Spider-Man. I still love the Incredible Hulk. I still have those characters that were white role models, superheroes, heroes - whatever you want to call it. You basically had no choice but to accept those.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • People
  • Up

• My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • World
  • Relationship

• I'm never going to try 'Carpool Karaoke' in New York. That would be a very different thing. Mariah Carey's one, we just drove, like, five or six blocks round where she was staying at the time.

  

  James Corden
  • Time
  • Different
  • She

• To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • People
  • Time