Jesy Nelson Quotes

I try never to compare myself to other people. I just think this is who I am. You are happier when you think that way.

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• I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Art
  • Reality

• The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Play
  • Doing

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Human

• I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friend
  • Singing
  • Red

• The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Book
  • Service

• I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Practice

• I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.

  

  Inbee Park
  • American
  • Golf
  • Younger

• It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Wise

• I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Rest
  • Practice

• These palms are driving me crazy; the motifs are extremely difficult to seize, to put on canvas; it's so bushy everywhere, although delightful to the eye.. .I would like to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but cannot find them as I would like.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Crazy
  • Sea
  • Blue

• I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk

• I grew up with games. It changed my life. It changed my social relationships with my friends. It defined my childhood. It's something I really cherished.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Friends

• Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Death
  • Car
  • Leaving

• He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.

  

  Jacopo Sannazaro
  • Heart
  • Wind
  • Waves

• You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Power
  • Future
  • Political

• To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • People
  • Road

• Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.

  

  David Elkind
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.

  

  Kevin Williamson
  • Beautiful
  • Decision
  • Beginning

• I try never to compare myself to other people. I just think this is who I am. You are happier when you think that way.

  

  Jesy Nelson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying