Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes

I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.

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

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Important
  • Kind
  • Actor

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Know

• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Different
  • Song
  • Better

• I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Language
  • Smile

• I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • World
  • Die
  • Afraid

• I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Youth

• The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Try
  • Last
  • Programmer

• When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sometimes
  • Fans
  • Ugly

• I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Hero
  • Loved
  • Him

• Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• It's a building with a curious, difficult history that is inexorably linked to the history of Berlin, he said That's very potent. You can't make a show here without some reference to all of that. And it certainly makes a show here so much more interesting.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • History
  • Interesting

• I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Earth

• Every day, every time I sing, I feel blessed, really, to be able to do that. It's like having wings, in a way. It's a bit like flying sometimes, because you go off into another realm. And a whole lot of people come with you. It's amazing.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • People
  • Time
  • Amazing

• We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Focus
  • Products
  • Apple

• No day is alike, nor should it be.

  

  Donna Edwards

• I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.

  

  Jayne Anne Phillips
  • Important