Billie Letts Quotes

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• My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Work
  • Experience
  • First

• I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Up
  • Think
  • Now

• You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • You
  • Someone
  • Without

• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
  • Confusion
  • Only

• I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl
  • Exercise
  • Gym

• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Know

• I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Always

• Well, I'm a professional.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Professional
  • Well

• Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Religious

• We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Remember
  • Looking
  • Wait

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Nice

• When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Play
  • Place

• I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Mom
  • Try
  • Vegan

• The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Understanding

• The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Money
  • Happiness
  • Data

• Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sorrow
  • Ground
  • Holy

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Design

• I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.

  

  Kerry Greenwood

• If you're top 10 in the world, it's not like you are going to be a slosh on a hard court, ... I knew I'd have to come out there and play my best tennis, and fortunately, I did.

  

  Brian Baker Bad Religion
  • Best
  • Hard
  • Top

• Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.

  

  Billie Letts
  • Home
  • History