John Slattery Quotes
When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.
John Slattery
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
Damien Chazelle
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar Wilde
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
Aaron Levie
As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
Zola Jesus
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
Nancy Gibbs
I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
Aaron Lazar
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
Wadada Leo Smith
I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
Fedor Emelianenko
My favorite part of designing bridal is that I will be a part of the most important day in a woman's life. My work needs to make her feel sophisticated, glamorous, sexy, and comfortable.
Naeem Khan
Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
Lev Grossman
Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.
Yves Montand
I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
Sally Mann
I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, 'Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!'
Margaret Cho
I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.
Li Lu
When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.
John Slattery
