Bruce Feiler Quotes

The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

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• For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Career
  • Actors

• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Work
  • Know
  • Deal

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Power
  • Inspiration
  • Beauty

• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Critics

• My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Question
  • Constitution

• I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Impossible

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Great
  • School
  • Help

• The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Office

• I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Work
  • Love
  • Language

• My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

  

  Edith Head
  • Audience
  • Clothes
  • Motto

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I like to do Pilates.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Like
  • Pilates

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Real
  • Experience
  • America

• Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Game
  • Celebrity

• For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Work
  • God
  • Family

• I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Great
  • Family
  • Team

• Theatre is all about the process and the sense of community that is created. You have weeks of rehearsal, time to explore your character and get to know the other actors. There is opportunity to try off-the-wall ideas, to find layers and nuance over weeks. You become like a second family with your cast.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Family