Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes
Fallon tells me about first starting 'Late Night': how he knew audiences were dubious.Jeanne Marie Laskas
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
Beau Willimon -
I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
Vanessa Bayer -
I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
Daley Thompson -
You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
Yani Tseng
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
Rachel Hunter -
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller -
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
D. H. Lawrence -
Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
Pat Robertson -
I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.
Aaron Funk -
I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
Randy Pausch
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
Carine Roitfeld -
You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
Tabitha Soren -
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Nadine Gordimer -
By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
Randy Harrison -
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
Sam Ewing -
President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.
Yousef Munayyer
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As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.
Enrique Vila-Matas -
We go out there and kill it every night, and you can see what this means to people.
M. Shadows -
I make a great lasagna. I also like making piccadillo. It's a Cuban dish with ground beef, tomato sauce, garlic and olives served over rice, with plantains. My ex-husband and all my boyfriends love it.
Christine Flores -
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold along the shores of Japan returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.
Charles Lapworth -
Fallon tells me about first starting 'Late Night': how he knew audiences were dubious.
Jeanne Marie Laskas