Reese Hoffa (Maurice Antawn Chism) Quotes

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.

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• Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Character

• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Explore
  • Still

• I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Like

• I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Know
  • Show

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• America faces a new race that has awakened.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • America
  • New
  • Race

• To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Choice

• Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Short

• I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • Death
  • Abortion

• Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • You
  • Need
  • Limit

• I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • See
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  • Leap

• 'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • City
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Music
  • Difficult
  • Security

• Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • God
  • Know

• What you risk reveals what you value.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Value
  • Risk

• It's tricky to get people to go see a movie in theaters today. 'Blair Witch' is playing in D-Box Theaters with the shaking seats. Just think if they gave you a 360-degree headset. Everyone would want to go to the movie.

  

  James Allen McCune
  • People
  • Movie
  • Today

• Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

  

  Jerry Falwell

• Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.

  

  Brian Chesky

• In the 1980s, there was no category to stick me in. 'He sounds too smart' is what I was hearing. I realized that I had to become a member of the school of what I call 'ugly acting.' Which meant I wanted to do what Dustin Hoffman did very successfully: to play character roles, but lead character roles.

  

  Joe Morton
  • School
  • Character
  • Smart

• Every day, I wake up and ask, 'Am I hungry?' If I'm physically hungry, I eat something that's hopefully good for me, and then do it again in a few hours. If I get a phone call I don't like, I'll say to myself, 'Is that the reason I want to eat something?' If it is, I try not to do it. It's literally a lifestyle.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Up
  • Good

• You can't ever make serious progress against terrorism unless you deal with Israel.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Serious
  • Progress

• I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.

  

  Mary Quant
  • Different
  • Road
  • King

• No one knows what a gazelle is anyway. This is America motherfucker, get it right.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • America

• It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.

  

  Reese Hoffa
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Person