John Skipper Quotes

I actually thought I wanted to be Thomas Wolfe, but I didn't have the talent. So I thought I could edit Thomas Wolfe.

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• He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Dog
  • Mirror
  • Humble

• I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • First
  • Got
  • Adolescent

• I'm a reclusive weirdo.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Weirdo
  • Reclusive

• I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Way
  • Always
  • Guess

• I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Interviews

• During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bridge

• I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Game
  • Study

• We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • Best
  • Acting

• Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Waiting

• I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Enjoy

• We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Country
  • America
  • History

• Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • You
  • Know
  • Awards

• Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event-something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world.  Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough-and slow enough-so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Good
  • Eyes

• We for a certainty are not the firstHave sat in taverns while the tempest hurledTheir hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursedWhatever brute and blackguard made the world.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World

• Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.'

  

  John Adams
  • Men
  • America
  • Free

• A foot of jade is of no value, an inch of time is to be prized.

  

  Andre Norton
  • Time
  • Value

• He had not remembered her name, but he had seen her dance - had been carried away and fascinated by the supreme art that can make you forget art.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Art
  • Dance

• You've gotta stop making stuff up.

  

  Anthony Weiner
  • Up
  • Stop

• You can set the bar at seven and a half feet and tell them nobody has every jumped that before. And they say, 'I can do it.' And they'll go out and try.

  

  Kobe Bryant

• I took charge of the government as per my commitment to serving the country and the people, and not out of any greed for yet another post.

  

  Khil Raj Regmi
  • People
  • Country
  • Commitment

• I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Reason
  • Conclusion
  • Watson

• The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Different
  • Long
  • Writing

• I actually thought I wanted to be Thomas Wolfe, but I didn't have the talent. So I thought I could edit Thomas Wolfe.

  

  John Skipper