Jon Lester Quotes
My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
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All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad's work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.
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I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.
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I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and this warped view that everyone is as happy as a pig in garbage.
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My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
