Jesse Andrews Quotes
If you're in a band for long enough, you see your bandmates at their best and their worst, and if you can stick together through that, you're basically family to each other.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love ABC Family!
-
Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
-
When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
-
If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
-
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
-
I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
-
All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
-
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
-
People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
-
As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
-
I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
-
A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.
-
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
-
I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.
-
Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
-
I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
-
There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.
-
What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?
-
Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.
-
On long car rides, we would always listen to the 'Blues Brothers' soundtrack and try to emulate everything that Aretha Franklin was doing. There was soul and grit in it that I think a kid from the suburbs really needed.
-
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
-
I've never been speed dating! I sort of wish I had, just for the experience of it.
-
If you're in a band for long enough, you see your bandmates at their best and their worst, and if you can stick together through that, you're basically family to each other.
