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
  • Page
  • 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

• 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

• When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Up
  • Help
  • Culture

• Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

  

  John Boyne
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Wise

• Disney is very much a child's theater - it's a very specific kind of acting. It's loud and boisterous with the goal to draw the attention of children and keep the attention of children, and it can kind of be cheesy and loud, and I had to unpack a lot of that, because as an actor, you kind of internalize, and you basically become a character.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Children
  • Character
  • Attention

• I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • People

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

  

  Reese Hoffa
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Person