Wendy Starland Quotes

Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.

Wendy Starland

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• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Career

• The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • May
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Women
  • More

• I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Need

• After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Thing
  • Horrible

• The poignancy which all beauty has.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm,The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Nature
  • Canvas

• No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Sea

• I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Brother
  • Smoking

• 'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Art
  • Design

• In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Work
  • Truth

• Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Writing
  • Reader
  • Easy Reading

• I always believe in the projects I do.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Believe

• Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • God

• There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

  

  Colm Meaney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It's the oldest one in the world and it's still going on - it's called the Sea Rovers.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • World
  • Age
  • Couple

• I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling with musical language seems to me the highest achievement.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Poetry
  • Achievement

• The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • World
  • Mind
  • America

• If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

  

  Charles Edward Merriam
  • Done
  • Action

• I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• I'll just say that there are times when TV shows, like 'The Honeymooners' or 'I Love Lucy' or something, where they're totally in their stride, and this thing happens, where you can tell they got everything they wanted. And it starts to look a little relaxed. No criticism to the shows whatsoever; these people are geniuses.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Criticism

• You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Proud

• God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Literature

• Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.

  

  Wendy Starland
  • Criticism
  • Constructive
  • Required