Jewel Staite Quotes

I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.

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• I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Future
  • Parents
  • Strong

• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Long
  • Personality
  • Pet

• Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Girl
  • Care
  • Monkey

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Day

• I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • History
  • Today
  • Success

• I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Pictures

• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Business
  • Past

• The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • High
  • Daily
  • Paper

• Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Life
  • Side
  • East

• If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Control
  • I Can
  • Go

• I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Popular
  • Writer

• Proust is a huge author for me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Author
  • Huge

• The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Courage
  • Go

• I've always had an addictive nature.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Addictive

• Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Long
  • Money
  • Short

• People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • People
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• The essayist … can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast...

  

  E. B. White
  • Devil
  • Mood

• I love everybody that I work with, and we have so much fun.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Have

• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Live
  • Always
  • Greatest

• I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.

  

  Jewel Staite
  • Fun
  • Desire
  • Trust