Jennifer Esposito Quotes

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

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• I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Doing

• There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • People
  • Know
  • Week

• Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Ugly
  • Video Games

• You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • You
  • More
  • Build

• Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World
  • Hand
  • Hell

• The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Role

• I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Things
  • Obsessed
  • Analogue

• In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

  

  Walter Pater
  • World
  • Failure
  • Eye

• We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Believe
  • Think

• I like meat and carbohydrates.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Like
  • Meat
  • Carbohydrates

• I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Day
  • Working
  • Plan

• The labor movement is a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves...

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People

• Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Experience

• Laws prohibiting sodomy do not seem to have been enforced against consenting adults acting in private... I do not know what 'acting in private' means; surely consensual sodomy, like heterosexual intercourse, is rarely performed on stage.

  

  Antonin Scalia

• How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Words

• Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Reality

• In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Water
  • Fool

• Art, that great undogmatized church.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Great
  • Art
  • Church

• As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.

  

  Ali Smith
  • World
  • Star
  • Paris

• When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Problem
  • Names
  • Dinner

• I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

  

  Luis Barragan
  • Architecture

• It's strange how interesting your dreams are, but when someone tries to tell you their dream you're just like "WHATEVER! Why don't you send me an e-mail so I can delete it?"

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Dream
  • Interesting
  • Funny

• I am a man who has made a great deal of money, and I haven't got a great deal. This is because I give it no value, and a certain Christian precept is something to be lived by, and so forth.

  

  Sidney Buchman
  • Money
  • Value
  • Precept

• Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

  

  Jennifer Esposito