Jessica Pare Quotes

Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine.

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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Children
  • Military

• When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • House

• Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Never

• I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  • Family
  • Book

• I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Girl

• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Black

• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

  Langston Hughes
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  • Dream
  • Like

• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
  • Gay
  • Looking

• I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

  

  Larry David
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Doing

• Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Remember

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
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  • Writing
  • Book

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mother

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Today

• I think when you really adore something, and you've grown up with it, you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

  

  Jane Goldman
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  • Magic

• For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas.

  

  Plutarch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

  

  John Stockwell
  • People
  • Attention
  • Military

• I like talking about comic book process, and one of the things is that I have plans going ahead for years, and the plans constantly get thrown away and shifted. There's a difference between planning and what actually happens in life, and comics have a life of their own.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Life
  • Book
  • Planning

• I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Future

• Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine.

  

  Jessica Pare
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