Esther M. Friesner Quotes
Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed.
Quotes to Explore
-
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
-
The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
-
Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
-
I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
-
I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
-
People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
-
So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
-
It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.
-
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.
-
We've beaten the Germans twice and now they're back!
-
I can't approach a character with judgment.
-
It's critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without raising taxes and without increasing the deficit. In the past, there's been strong support for full funding and I'm still hearing that from many of my colleagues.
-
I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
-
I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.
-
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
-
Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended.
-
I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.
-
I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.
-
If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
-
My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!
-
And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.
-
I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.
-
Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed.
