Edie Falco Quotes

All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

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• There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Rules

• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Want

• Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Year
  • United States
  • Ship

• We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Impossible
  • Environmental

• I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• Competition is good and has served us well.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Good
  • Competition
  • Well

• 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Great
  • Family
  • Comedy

• I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Trying

• It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Amazing
  • Say
  • Really

• You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Men
  • Country
  • Energy

• Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end, life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Beginning

• Attributed in the 'quote of the day' source code of the 'Fortune' computer program (June 1987); more at 'The Most Exciting Phrase in Science Is Not ‘Eureka!’ But ‘That’s funny …’' at Quote Investigator

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Funny
  • June

• It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • City

• Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular? Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?

  

  Lawyer
  • Trust

• Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar.Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway, far,Before you agonise them in farewell?

  

  Adela Florence Nicolson
  • Lies
  • Farewell

• There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Nature

• As a guest, Emily Price had three main drawbacks: she was incapable of saying please, incapable of saying thank you and incapable of saying sorry, all the while creating a surge in the demand for these expressions.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • She
  • Sorry

• I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Different

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• I'm excited about it. It's been about five or six years since I was involved with the All-Star game, and we had a good time together.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Together
  • Game
  • Excited

• You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Children
  • Humanity
  • Parent

• All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

  

  Edie Falco