Janet Street-Porter Quotes
Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.
Quotes to Explore
-
Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
-
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
-
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
-
I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
-
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
-
Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.
-
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
-
If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.
-
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
-
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
-
Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
-
The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.
-
The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
-
I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
-
We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
-
I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.
-
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
-
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
-
The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.
-
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
-
Sciatica: he cured it, by boyling his buttock.
-
It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
-
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
-
Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.
