Jane Lynch Quotes

The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Same

• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Child

• I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Day
  • Sky

• If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Day

• I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• I shall always be a priest of love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Always
  • Priest

• You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • People
  • Parents
  • Small

• When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • You
  • Easy
  • Bored

• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Energy
  • Players

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Twilight

• I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Done
  • Night

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Play
  • Name

• I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Important

• I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Afraid

• Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• It's been a while since I checked in with Malcolm Gladwell's 'Revisionist History' podcast. The episode 'The King of Tears' suggests the author is raising the bar. His argument is that country music is the genre that makes us cry because, unlike rock, it's not afraid of specifics.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Music
  • Country
  • History

• The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Realm
  • Epitome
  • Traffic Jam

• The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Good
  • Deep