Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes
Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
-
I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
-
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
-
They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
-
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
-
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
-
To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
-
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
-
I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
-
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
-
I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
-
Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
-
I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
-
I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
-
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
-
Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
-
Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'
-
When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
-
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.
-
I'm pretty stubborn.
-
I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me. And I try to write about things that are very close to me because I want people to feel the passion that I have for the subject.
-
Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and pull back just a little on the stick. ... " One might as well explain music by saying that the further over to the right you hit the piano the higher it will sound. The makings of a flight are not in the levers, wheels, and pedals but in the nervous system of the pilot: physical sensations, bits of textbook, deep-rooted instincts, burnt-child memories of trouble aloft, hangar talk.
-
For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
-
Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.
