Jennifer Tilly Quotes

I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

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• All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Marketing
  • Advertising

• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Space
  • Violence
  • Architecture

• I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Like
  • Reach

• For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• Discipline is not a nasty word.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Discipline
  • Word
  • Nasty

• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Game
  • Free
  • Difference

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Real
  • Past

• Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Man
  • Determination
  • Quiet

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Strength
  • Motherhood

• I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • English
  • Literature

• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Outside

• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Job
  • Kill

• Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Party
  • Chinese

• During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Want
  • Religious
  • Mad

• The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Dog

• Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Nature
  • Value
  • Leaving

• Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.

  

  Dara Horn
  • Past
  • Faith
  • Forever

• I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

  

  Jean Giraudoux
  • Life
  • Up
  • Game

• I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

  

  Jennifer Tilly
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