Jessica Lowndes Quotes
I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
-
When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
-
I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
-
If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
-
In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.
-
It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
-
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
-
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
-
When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!
-
Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
-
When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
-
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
-
In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
-
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
-
I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.
-
Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.
-
There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.
-
Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
-
It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
-
A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.
-
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
-
I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'
-
When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.
-
I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.
