Esther M. Friesner Quotes

Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed.

Esther M. Friesner

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• 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.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Giving
  • Down
  • Days

• I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Political
  • Personalities

• 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.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• 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.'

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Want
  • Seriously

• So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Think
  • Me
  • Piano

• It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • World
  • Me
  • Meaningful

• An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Art

• We've beaten the Germans twice and now they're back!

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• I can't approach a character with judgment.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Past
  • Strong
  • Support

• 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.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • Money
  • Small
  • 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.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Time
  • Learning

• Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Sleep

• 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.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • 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.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • People
  • Wall
  • Smile

• 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.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Up
  • Listening

• When I entered Bollywood, I didn't have any advantage over anyone. I didn't know how to act, I was not from the industry, I didn't know the language, and I didn't know how to dance. So, whatever films I was getting, I was just taking them up.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Up
  • Dance

• We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

  

  Alex Scarrow
  • Born
  • Dead
  • Faster

• I always wanted to be a Klingon princess. They were so pretty, and their hair was fire. My hair is Klingon, I feel like.

  

  SZA
  • Pretty
  • Hair
  • Fire

• It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.

  

  Ksenia Solo
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• Running your own business is a huge amount of fun, but there's also a huge amount of seriousness, so actually, they level out.

  

  James William Middleton
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Running

• Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Fun
  • Boys
  • Girls