Michaela Watkins Quotes

I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something.

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• My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Memories

• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Celebrity
  • Ways

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Fever

• The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Dying

• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • End

• I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Real
  • Family
  • Political

• Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Kiss
  • Parenting

• I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Love
  • Movie

• Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Quality

• On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

  

  China Anne McClain
  • Different
  • Disney

• I grew up in Newport, so I went to Boston growing up. The city holds a lot of special memories of my childhood, like the Swan Boats and Make Way for Ducklings.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Up
  • Growing
  • City

• Wow, I think you grow all the time when you're working. You start the job and by the end of it, if it's a long one, you kind of say, 'My God, I was so different at the start of this job.' I always feel like I've changed for the better with each one.

  

  Eleanor Tomlinson
  • Time
  • God
  • Different

• I am grateful to everybody: the training staff, my fellow players, and everybody who works for the club. It is just great.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Great
  • Training

• I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Time
  • Learning

• I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

  

  Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde
  • People
  • Music
  • Style

• I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Movie
  • Kind

• It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I'll never have a best friend who is a man. It just doesn't work that way. So many times young girls will be like, 'I'm a guy's girl.' And I'm like, 'No, you're not. There's no way a man can understand you like a woman, and you're a guy's girl because you're threatened by other women.' I was like that.

  

  Jemima Kirke
  • Work
  • Women
  • Guy

• I've sort of gotten into the habit of looking for the vulnerable guy, the guy who makes mistakes, the guy who can't figure things out all the time but keeps at it.

  

  James Stewart
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Habit

• I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something.

  

  Michaela Watkins
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