Winona Ryder Quotes

You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

Winona Ryder

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• Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Grow

• I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Father
  • Car

• Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • World
  • Reading
  • Best

• How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• We will expect to cop it and we'll cop it sweet.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Sweet
  • Cop

• The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • She

• Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Government
  • Cry

• A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Men
  • House
  • Jump

• Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

  

  Gabriel Ba
  • Life
  • Death
  • Die

• Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Lonely

• At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Night
  • Universe
  • Cool

• I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Scene

• while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Space
  • Feels
  • Poet

• I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job. You're beautiful and worthy and totally unique. People insult each other based on their own insecurities - even though it may feel personal, it really never is. Really. Seriously.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Learning
  • Working

• the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Gift
  • Jazz
  • Paint

• I know that people don't listen to music much in the way when they'll put on a CD, sit down, have a drink or go on a car journey. People pick and choose and just listen to tracks. But when I make a record, I try to think about it as a 50 minute musical journey, so the mood is very important, as is the sequence of the songs.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • People
  • Life
  • Together

• You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

  

  Winona Ryder
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