Theresa Breslin Quotes

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

Theresa Breslin

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• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Written
  • Tombstone

• But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Fall
  • Self-pity

• He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Play
  • Potential
  • Follow

• For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Universe
  • Years

• I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Time
  • Country
  • Political

• Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Children
  • Think
  • Understanding

• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • College
  • Baseball

• Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

  

  Carl Jung
  • People
  • Important
  • Everyone

• As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Help
  • Free
  • Small

• A man of truth must also be a man of care.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth

• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  

  Benjamin Harrison
  • World
  • God
  • Police

• I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Time
  • Bored

• We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Great
  • Success
  • Celebrity

• That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.

  

  Clotilde Hesme
  • Work
  • Why
  • Theatre

• My father was a musician, so I feel like falling into this career was a bit inevitable.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Father
  • Career

• In a girl I look for honesty above all, someone who I can carry on a conversation with, someone who has a good sense of humor, someone who's true to herself, and to top it, someone who can get ready for a date in less than ten minutes.

  

  Erik von Detten
  • Humor
  • Conversation
  • Someone

• I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Up
  • Silly

• Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

  

  Theresa Breslin
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Sometimes