Jody Watley Quotes

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.

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• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Humility
  • Foundation

• The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Thought
  • Criticism
  • Romantics

• I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Drink
  • Fair
  • Noodles

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Love
  • Heaven

• Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • Women

• The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Praise

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Working
  • Strength
  • Give

• I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Different
  • Garden
  • Neighbors

• You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.

  

  Jack Black
  • Mind
  • You
  • Little

• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Civilization
  • Barbarism

• I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Fog

• Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• The first job of a writer is to be honest.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Job
  • First
  • Writer

• I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Sister
  • Three

• My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.

  

  Jeff Garlin
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Baseball

• I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.

  

  Pauline Matthews

• Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Father

• While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.

  

  Amy Jo Martin
  • Business
  • Space

• If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Business
  • Fearless