Rebecca Wells Quotes

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

Rebecca Wells

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• Kind
• Story
• Ability
• Humor
• Drives

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• Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • History
  • Dangerous
  • Ride

• I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Never
  • Him
  • Even

• I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Country
  • Giving
  • Start

• How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Child
  • End

• I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Want
  • Action
  • Horror

• We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Moment
  • Seriously

• I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Stand
  • Commentator

• It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Influence
  • Writers
  • Reader

• To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Teenager
  • Racism
  • Once

• I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Earth
  • Peace

• Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Thought
  • Acting
  • See

• I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Baseball
  • Born
  • I Can

• It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Me
  • Like
  • Going

• My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • She
  • Mother

• There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh water, clean air, tillable soil, forests, wilderness, habitat for wildlife, minerals and recreational assets.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Important
  • Long
  • America

• Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

  

  Martha Stewart

• High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • High

• That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Money
  • Trouble
  • Patience

• I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

  

  Rebecca Wells
  • Money
  • Kind
  • Story