Jim Dale Quotes

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom', only talent can keep you at the top.

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• I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Funny

• When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Up
  • Brain
  • Thought

• I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Greatest
  • Disaster
  • Consequences

• I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Right
  • Born

• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Safety
  • Speed
  • Ice

• When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Time
  • inspirational

• You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Me
  • Know
  • Fire

• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Kind
  • Loved
  • Hotel

• The Price Is Right can really get me going.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Me
  • Right
  • Price

• I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Music
  • Stuff
  • Old

• Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • High

• Lighten your palette his remark to Cézanne circa 1873, to encourage Cézanne to use bright colors, paint only with the three primary colours and their derivatives.

  

  Camille Pissarro

• Mr. Ai, we’ve seen the same events with different eyes; I wrongly thought they’d seem the same to us.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Different
  • Eyes

• The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Reality

• Samia: I'm all the trouble you need. Do you know why I invited you here?Ginger: For the Brussels sprouts tartare?Samia: For the long, discreet tablecloths.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Long
  • Why

• Society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live. This determination may be institutionally programmed in the operation of social controls, as in the institution of law. Society can maim and kill. Indeed, it is in its power over life and death that it manifests its ultimate control over the individual.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in ‘88. Only then was I ready to turn professional.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Patience
  • Boxing
  • Part

• I don't know that I'd want to do acting as a job, not as a proper job. I'd like to do it as a hobby. I want to be a supply teacher. I'd like to be one of those teachers that kids really like.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Brilliant
  • Fabulous
  • Gorgeous

• There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom', only talent can keep you at the top.

  

  Jim Dale