Jaquelin T. Robertson Quotes

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

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• Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • School
  • Thought
  • Drama

• I want to make 'Smackdown' the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, 'WrestleMania' is the next step.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Want
  • Step
  • Brand

• When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!

  

  Cam
  • School
  • She
  • Mom

• By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Food
  • Better
  • Pizza

• I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Family
  • Because
  • Busy

• I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Art
  • Bad
  • History

• According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Power
  • Monster
  • Legend

• Who likes the little little duckies in the pond? I do, I do, I do, a-chicka quack quack.

  

  Ze Frank

• I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my handsand wrote my will across the sky in stars To gain you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house, that your eyes might be shining for meWhen I came.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • House
  • Freedom

• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Single

• Dat poenas laudata fides, cum sustinet inquitquos fortuna premit.

  

  Lucan

• I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • World
  • Family
  • Age

• It's true with fashion, acting, anything: Make sure it's timeless, but at the same time, there's got to be a little hint of risk.

  

  Jake McDorman
  • Time
  • True
  • Fashion

• I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

  

  Derek Magyar

• I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • American

• I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Fly

• I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.

  

  David Bergen
  • Up
  • Help
  • Words

• Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • World
  • Men
  • Important

• First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.

  

  James Coburn
  • Job

• A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

  

  Pindar
  • Age
  • Childhood

• I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Journey
  • Destiny
  • Source

• I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

  

  Jaquelin T. Robertson