Frances Farmer Quotes

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Frances Farmer

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Competition

• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Power
  • Basketball

• Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Country
  • Potential
  • Serve

• Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • People
  • Myself
  • Singing

• This love is silent.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Love Is

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • People
  • Free
  • End

• Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Returns

• We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gold

• Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Service

• With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Possibilities

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Beautiful
  • Disappointment
  • Beautiful Woman

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Evolution
  • Brains

• I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Way

• You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.

  

  Jenifer Lewis
  • Good

• My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • People
  • School
  • High

• Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.

  

  David Keith

• Every journey starts with fear.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Fear
  • Journey

• The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • School
  • True
  • Pretty