Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes

I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.

Carol Rifka Brunt

• Black
• Kind
• Rain
• Window
• Candy
• Shining

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• I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• I want the single player experience.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Single

• Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Great
  • Characters
  • Fiction

• If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Learn
  • Laugh
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• I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Data

• We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Business
  • Never
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• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Animal
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• I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Art
  • Home
  • Energy

• There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Kids
  • Moment

• Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • God
  • Movie
  • Die

• Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • More
  • Supreme

• Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Music
  • Different
  • Country

• Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Holiday
  • Destination
  • Italy

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

  

  Karl Rove
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• With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

  

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  • Communication
  • Solitude

• Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Life
  • Important
  • Risk

• The comedy on '2 Broke Girls' always comes from a place of love - it's never mean. We're a comedy, and we often go right to the edge. It doesn't bother me. I've encountered this all my life. I've been made fun of all my life.

  

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  • Life
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• Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say, Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.

  

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• I think once 'Empire' hit, there was a lot of bad black TV that followed, because we work in the business of hit-seekers and copycats, so they're like, 'Oh this is a show about black people; this is about music, OK let's do a version of that.' And, of course, it doesn't work because it's not organic.

  

  Lena Waithe
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  • Work
  • Music

• I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.

  

  Carol Rifka Brunt
  • Black
  • Kind
  • Rain