Jill Kargman Quotes

I get verbal diarrhea in the writers' room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories and craziness, and we all double up on the floor laughing.

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• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Right

• I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Remember
  • America
  • Girl

• I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Culture
  • Training
  • Comfortable

• We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • She
  • Fall
  • Look

• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
  • Day
  • Chicago

• If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Where
  • Temple
  • Idol

• I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.

  

  Wale
  • Person
  • Passionate
  • Fault

• I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Think
  • Surprise

• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Laws
  • Open
  • Visa

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Gay
  • Red
  • Living

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Couple
  • Hearts
  • Collection

• At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Red
  • Loving
  • Wings

• This is really honest: I have to remind myself not to look another black man as a threat.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • Black

• Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time, people talk and they tell us what they know.

  

  John Abizaid
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.

  

  John Perkins
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• I am not a career politician. I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican. I'm a working man with commonsense ideas and goals. I describe myself politically as fiscally conservative and socially moderate-to-liberal.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Career
  • Goals

• My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

  

  David Mamet
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Dad

• I get verbal diarrhea in the writers' room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories and craziness, and we all double up on the floor laughing.

  

  Jill Kargman
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