Rashida Jones Quotes

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

Rashida Jones

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• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Different
  • Want
  • Play

• You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Other

• If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Good
  • Reading

• It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not 'progressed ' in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Time
  • Education
  • Present

• ‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Greek

• Labor’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Sacrifice

• I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Up
  • English

• A lot of what I write is very personal.

  

  Elif Batuman

• Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • People
  • Together

• When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

  

  Debra Winger

• I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

  

  John Grant
  • Music

• That muche is my bowe bent to shoote at these marks, And kyll feare, when the sky falth we shall haue larks.

  

  John Heywood
  • Sky

• To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Church
  • Christian

• It's good for him. It's good for us, because I think it gives us somebody solidly behind Patrick there.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Patrick
  • Solidity

• I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Practice

• Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Wife

• Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • World
  • Why
  • Player

• There could never really be justice on stolen land.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Justice
  • Land
  • Stolen

• I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Thinking
  • Emotion
  • Laughing