Janel Moloney Quotes
I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.
Quotes to Explore
-
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
-
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
-
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
-
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
-
It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
-
Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
-
I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
-
Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
-
I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
-
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
-
My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
-
Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
-
Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
-
There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
-
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
-
Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
-
When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
-
We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
-
We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.
-
How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!
-
I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.
-
Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't really speak any English, and when we left, that's all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.
-
I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.
