Sela Ward Quotes

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

Sela Ward

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• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Travel

• Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Body
  • Building
  • Hell

• I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Today

• I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Time
  • American
  • Community

• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Life
  • Humanity
  • Defeat

• We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • More
  • Cosmic
  • Earthly

• My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Public
  • Very
  • Private

• I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Know
  • Pictures
  • Historical

• I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Interesting
  • Most
  • Parts

• I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that's what really started me off.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • School
  • Think
  • Impact

• I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Good
  • School

• Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Fall
  • Proud
  • Awareness

• I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

  

  J. Cole
  • Never
  • Doubt
  • Healthy

• Laughter always forgives.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Laughter

• As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor, and capital allocation.

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Up
  • Work
  • Culture

• I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Song

• I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Children
  • Kind
  • Purpose

• Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • People
  • Character
  • Past

• Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Chicago
  • Capitalism
  • Human Habitation

• I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • World

• If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

  

  Sela Ward
  • Actress