Erika Slezak Quotes

My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.

Erika Slezak

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• In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Money
  • Fun
  • College

• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • College
  • Decided

• I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Work
  • Job
  • History

• I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Home
  • College

• The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Life
  • Long
  • School

• I love my dad, and I'm proud to be his daughter.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Love
  • Dad
  • Proud

• Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Summer

• I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Game

• I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• The thing is that the people of Pakistan have supported me. They don't think of me as Western. I am a daughter of Pakistan and I am proud that I am a Pakistani.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Proud
  • Daughter

• 'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Daughter

• Midnight on the water I saw the ocean's daughter Walking on a wave's chicane Staring as she called my name And I can't get it out of my head No, I can't get it out of my head Now my old world is gone for dead 'Cos I can't get it out of my head

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • World
  • She
  • Water

• If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • People
  • Time
  • College

• I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Daughter

• I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • College

• I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.

  

  Alison Owen
  • College
  • English
  • Literature

• I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I have always - at least, ever since I can remember - had a kind of longing for death.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Remember
  • Death

• Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• You work on a play or movie, you have the whole script, so you're constructing a performance based on the bible that you have. In TV, you don't, so to actually invest in that and let that be the exciting part is terrifying and certainly leaves room for mistakes, looking back.

  

  Cory Michael Smith
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Bible

• I never really saw myself as a comedy director, and I still don't. I see myself as a director.

  

  Melina Matsoukas
  • Comedy

• My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.

  

  Erika Slezak
  • College
  • Daughter
  • Summer