Brenna Yovanoff Quotes

The Cutter leaned toward me, resting his forehead against mine. 'Fool me once,' he whispered, 'shame on you.' He pressed the bridge of his nose against mine, his breath burning the back of my throat. His voice was rough and furious. 'Fool me twice, and I will cut out your fucking throat.

Brenna Yovanoff

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• Breath
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• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stars
  • New
  • India

• No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Player
  • Doubt
  • Short

• Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Great
  • Live
  • Family

• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice
  • Race

• I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Knowledge

• The essence of the desert is that you are free to create your own world, your own visionary reality. … Both Burning Man and the Internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • World
  • Free
  • Reality

• A Korean reporter once asked me, 'Do you think your Korean parents are ashamed because you talk about what you talk about on stage?' I said, 'I don't think they're ashamed because they're Korean. I think any parents would be ashamed.'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Parents

• Once you feel good, you look good... that projects to everyone.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Good

• Any of us directing at Pixar, whether it's our first time or not, feel a lot of pressure to not make a bad Pixar film.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Time
  • Bad

• I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Great
  • Career
  • Famous

• The only way we are going to get diversity is if the demographics of the decision-makers change... The odd-token bone thrown is not going to do it. Don't pat yourself on the back because you made that black drama; that's not diversity. It's got to be baked into the foundation of where the ideas flow from.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Black
  • Decision
  • Drama

• I live in Palm Beach, where no one wants to hear bad news.

  

  Jeff Greene
  • Live
  • Bad
  • Beach

• The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

  

  Hernan Cortes

• For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter?

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Money
  • Why
  • Professional

• It's in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in life. Italian food is so conducive to all of that.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nature

• To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Shame
  • Reviews

• If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

  

  Emil Zatopek
  • Long
  • Power
  • Training

• When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Long

• I had applied to become French - or, rather, Franco-American, as I'm now a dual citizen - partly because I could: I'd lived and paid taxes here for long enough.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Long
  • American

• Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.

  

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson
  • Speak
  • Television
  • Messages

• The Cutter leaned toward me, resting his forehead against mine. 'Fool me once,' he whispered, 'shame on you.' He pressed the bridge of his nose against mine, his breath burning the back of my throat. His voice was rough and furious. 'Fool me twice, and I will cut out your fucking throat.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Bridge
  • Shame
  • Breath