Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
Quotes to Explore
-
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
-
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-
My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
-
I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
-
There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
-
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
-
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
-
I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
-
I've been things and seen places.
-
One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
-
I get bored easily.
-
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
-
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
-
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
-
Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
-
Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
-
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
-
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
-
Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.
-
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
-
Unless I can come in in the morning and smile, walk in the lobby and say, 'Good morning!' - if I am stressed - I am not going to do a good job. Everybody is watching us. They are feeding off of our energy.
-
Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
-
In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake that gets talked about all the time is Rory's throw. Call that cinnamon and he's got a cinnamon flavoured cake.
-
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
