Jessica Lange Quotes

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

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• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Early
  • Brown
  • Earned

• Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Society

• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Real
  • Power
  • Worry

• I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Truth

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Bad

• Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Way
  • Operation
  • Prevented

• I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Writer
  • Talker

• I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Write
  • Need
  • Hotel

• The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Society

• Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Fish
  • Birds

• Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Law
  • Hands

• When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Strong

• Impatience is a virtue.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Virtue
  • Impatience

• Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Trying
  • Dog
  • Wave

• Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Book
  • Voice
  • Garden

• No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Alone
  • Here

• You can't be a conqueror in your own home.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Home
  • You
  • Own

• I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Think
  • Question

• There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People

• We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Country

• And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything good, the determination to ensure - if anyone falls into the mistake of making it clear they actually like you - that the next time round they change their opinion pronto. Emotional self-cannibalism, in other words, like those tessellated pictures of a person grappling with a mirror image of himself.

  

  Alexander Masters
  • Remember
  • Mirror
  • Image

• If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

  

  Jessica Lange