Janeane Garofalo Quotes

I don't really have a theatre background at all.

Janeane Garofalo

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• Every dude needs a well tailored suit. I'd say well tailored suit, a leather jacket, and a pair of jeans that really fit are vital in your wardrobe.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Jeans
  • Leather
  • Dude

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Want
  • Try

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Sports
  • Car
  • Driving

• Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Twitter
  • Commercial
  • Applications

• It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Thought
  • Personality
  • Voice

• Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Theater

• I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Week
  • My Own
  • Bullets

• The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Love
  • Friendship

• But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

  

  Origen
  • Wise
  • Word
  • Him

• There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Experience
  • America

• There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • People
  • Good
  • Problem

• The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Business
  • Team
  • Transition

• I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Friends
  • High
  • Health

• I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled 'Science Fiction' … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Science
  • Serious
  • Mistake

• To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

  

  Jose Bergamin
  • Forgiveness

• The thing that gives me great hope is that I think, if anything, our world now is ready to be, like, 'This stuff happens.' We're not trying to pretend like terrible things don't happen, that uncomfortable situations, uncomfortable behavior, unhealthy behaviors don't occur in our daily lives.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • World
  • Great
  • Trying

• I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Drama
  • Theatre

• One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

  

  Clive Barnes
  • American
  • Beautiful
  • Dance

• I don't really have a theatre background at all.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Theatre