Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
-
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
-
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
-
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
-
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
-
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
-
I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
-
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
-
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
-
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
-
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
-
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
-
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
-
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
-
I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
-
I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
-
The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
-
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
-
I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
-
To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.
-
Warner Brothers had to hire [a stunt double] and no one thought a child could do this. Billy Friedkin came to me before we were filming [The Exorcist] and said ,if you do not do all of this film, the film will be a joke.It's why they stripped the makeup down to the bare minimum, a piece on my chin, piece across my mouth that disfigured my mouth. You have scars here. Take away my eyebrows. It was my real hair. Shampoo was put in it that dried.
-
You don't have to go to Harvard to figure out that the Big East is the best league in the country. You don't have to be a genius. A dummy like me can figure that out. When I look at my coach of the year candidates, Jamie Dixon is in my top five. Jamie has done a fantastic job. He has lost some heartbreakers on the road, but that's because winning on the road in the Big East is so difficult. They've been able to win at home. And that's the key when you play in a tough league. You better win your home games.
-
I go from being in front of 2,000 people, shot-gunning beers on stage and acting like a complete idiot, to being in a Mommy and Me class, waving a little pink handkerchief around 12 hours later!
-
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
