Jon Cryer Quotes

Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

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• Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Adventure
  • Comfort

• I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Travel

• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Good
  • Age
  • Father

• If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Business
  • Think
  • Model

• I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hip Hop

• I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Dance

• One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Experience
  • Fitness

• In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• Low light demanded 'fast' film, usually ISO 400 or higher; the fastest available would be about ISO 1000. When the sun was bright, you would reach for ISO 64 to avoid the burned-out look of overexposure.

  

  David Hewson
  • Light
  • Sun

• Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Fashion

• Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • War

• I've got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for sure, I've always been interested in music from other cultures.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Up
  • Music
  • Education

• All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Life
  • Music
  • High

• Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • Business
  • Model

• 'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

  

  Jacob K. Javits
  • Business
  • Party

• A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• If this were the last night of the worldWhat would I doWhat would I do that was differentUnless it was champagne with you...

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Night
  • Champagne

• It isn't always simple when America discovers you at 11 years old. Suddenly, it's not just homework that you're responsible for. Your name becomes a hashtag, and if you're lucky, you might even get invited on 'Ellen.'

  

  Marley Dias
  • America
  • Simple

• It would be a lot cheaper for me not to have to raise tens of millions of dollars to elect progressive candidates who will raise my taxes.

  

  Chris Sacca

• People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.

  

  Jessica Ennis Hill
  • Competition
  • Pressure
  • Ultimate

• Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

  

  Jon Cryer