Deborah Needleman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
-
Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
-
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
-
In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
-
The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
-
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
-
If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
-
Men create the gods in their own image.
-
I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
-
I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.
-
It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
-
We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.
-
It was as the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.
-
Nothing is as exciting - or as nerve-wracking - as being the new girl. Whether it's your first day of school or you're starting a dream job, if there's one thing that makes a first impression a lot less daunting, it's a really, really good hair day.
-
When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected.
-
If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.
-
I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
-
The game doesn't change.
-
You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.
-
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
-
You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.
-
We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.
-
What's life without love? You can accomplish everything you want in life, but without anyone to share it with, what's it really worth?
-
Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.
