Nina Totenberg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
-
I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
-
The pace of television is very different from film.
-
Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
-
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
-
I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
-
Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
-
When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
-
You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
-
Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
-
Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
-
You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
-
With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
-
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
-
It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
-
I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.
-
Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
-
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
-
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
-
I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
-
When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
-
Aging is not currently regarded as a disease, but researchers tend increasingly to view it as the common origin of conditions like insulin resistance or cardiovascular disease, whose incidence rises with age. In treating cell aging, we could prevent these diseases.
-
While I don't necessarily believe the cliche that 'everything happens for a reason,' I do believe that every encounter, every situation, and every challenge I've experienced has shaped me into the woman I am today. And I am proud to say that I have never backed down from life's challenges.
-
Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.
