Brooke Smith Quotes

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

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• I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Rights

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Small
  • Day

• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Time
  • Law
  • Agenda

• It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Will
  • Going
  • Guess

• Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Care
  • Worry
  • Take Care

• I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Up
  • Live
  • Country

• Religion is induced insanity.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Religion
  • Insanity
  • Induced

• You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Eye

• If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Moment

• I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Enough

• I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Know

• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Parenting

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Reading

• It's very unusual to be playing something other than human.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford

• All literature is political.

  

  LeVar Burton
  • Political
  • Literature

• I believe I've accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Trying

• A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• The hard part that I didn't like about recruiting in college was, there was so many regulations. So many rules. It was so many layers to it in the recruiting that I just got fed up with it.

  

  David Fizdale
  • Up
  • College

• I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

  

  Brooke Smith
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