Jessica Williams Quotes
I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.
Jessica Williams
Quotes to Explore
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
Karisma Kapoor
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
Jack Nicholson
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
Carl Safina
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Oriana Fallaci
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
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Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'
Rachel Sklar
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
Jack Kemp
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
A. J. Cook
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
Jack Lemmon
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
Abraham Maslow
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
Hanna Rosin
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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life.
Micheal Ray Stevenson
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Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'
Mark Billingham
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
Walton Goggins
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Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
Elyn Saks
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I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.
Jessica Williams
