Jessica Williams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
-
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
-
Produce great men, the rest follows.
-
Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
-
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
-
You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
-
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
-
I am pretty tough as a boss.
-
Music is like my security blanket.
-
It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
-
Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
-
As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
-
Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
-
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
-
I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
-
I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
-
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
-
Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
-
My favorite Hepburn moment is in 'Sabrina,' when she steps off a boat in white shorts and a plaid shirt. Chic, classic, and unfussy.
-
I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'
-
I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
-
If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
-
You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.
-
I started 'The Daily Show' when I was 22. I was going to class at Long Beach.
