Jennie Finch Quotes

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Find

• It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Women
  • Together

• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Kind
  • Young

• Five wives can't all be wrong.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wrong
  • Five
  • Wives

• Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Done
  • Game
  • Worry

• I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Reasons
  • Companies
  • Buy

• Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wife
  • Many
  • Having

• When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Famous
  • Writer
  • Literary

• You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you don't have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Fashion
  • Choose
  • Vote

• My freshman year, I played third, and sophomore and junior, third.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Year
  • Freshman
  • Third

• I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Like
  • Prayer
  • Top

• Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Family
  • Best
  • Share

• Nothing happens unless first we dream.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • First

• Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Action

• As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Family
  • May
  • You

• There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Different
  • Women
  • Character

• A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

  

  E. B. White
  • Good
  • Man
  • Farmer

• A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Training
  • Dollars
  • Goes On

• One of the things I say is from an evolutionary point of view: probably the ideal rich environment for a baby includes more mud, livestock, and relatives than most of us could tolerate nowadays.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Environment
  • Baby

• Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Republics

• It's not about how you look, it's about how you feel. I can do more with ease and grace now at 52 than I could when I was 20. I can ride my bike 60 miles, I can handle stress, I have good muscle tone. That's what it's about. Not about being thin but about being healthy

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Good
  • Stress
  • Bike

• When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

  

  Jennie Finch