Jim Brown Quotes

If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.

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• I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Human
  • Characters
  • Flawed

• I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

  

  C. J. Box
  • People
  • Children
  • Real

• I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Nature
  • Actor
  • Africa

• Time is generally the best doctor.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Best
  • Medical

• The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Resistance
  • Loser

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Beautiful
  • Clothes
  • Shock

• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Yourself
  • Search
  • Others

• If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Born
  • Name
  • Fathers

• I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Think
  • Perfection
  • Strive

• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Israel
  • Dealing
  • Treachery

• I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Going

• My goal isn't to shock.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Goal
  • Shock

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Comedy
  • Mirror
  • Films

• It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Inspiration

• God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Broken

• I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I always wanted to write. I was probably in high school when I realized the things I was writing weren't books; they were movies, they were visual.

  

  David Leslie Johnson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

  

  Cindy Sherman
  • Promise

• I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • Reading
  • Rock
  • Sports

• If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Sports