Odetta Holmes (Odetta) Quotes
The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
Quotes to Explore
-
My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
-
It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
-
It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
-
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
-
I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
-
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
-
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
-
You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lift miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day untouched, some old, lost sweet-tasting time.But there it was again, the girl's spreading bloodstain.
-
This much have I learned: A man’s life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
-
I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.
-
Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
-
I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.
-
Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.
-
I wasn't born in Mexico - I was born in Nicaragua - but I know that, when somebody like Donald Trump says 'Mexicans,' he means all of us. He means anybody who comes from south of the border.
-
Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.
-
One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure.
-
What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important.
-
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
-
The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.
-
Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.
-
When I spend a lot of time in New York, or somewhere when I don't have a car, I miss that mobility and freedom that you have when you have a car. You don't have to rely on anyone else.
-
I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.
-
The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
