Jenny Downham Quotes

I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.

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• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Manhood
  • Sensitivity

• All four majors are definitely a priority.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Priority
  • Four
  • Majors

• I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Dog
  • Webster

• Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Day

• I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Think
  • Relationships
  • Doors

• I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Hands
  • Mountain
  • Kitchen

• I never thought of being disadvantaged.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Being

• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

• There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Night
  • Sports

• The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Men
  • Job
  • Man

• Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Fun
  • Day
  • Dance

• I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Blessed
  • Grateful

• My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Desire
  • Leader
  • Been

• I play well with everybody.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Play
  • Well
  • Everybody

• Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Grateful
  • Musicians

• Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • May
  • Space
  • Brain

• A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Lie

• I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

  

  Jimmy Stewart
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • Hero

• the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.

  

  Katharine Tynan
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Lying

• Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Consider
  • Museums
  • Counts

• We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought that's kind of strange, because music is full of life! We thought we could break through that barrier with theater and comedy elements.

  

  Aleksey Igudesman
  • Life
  • Music
  • Comedy

• I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.

  

  Jenny Downham