Lauren Ambrose Quotes

It's the nature of the freelancer: you never know where you're going to be. You get great opportunities, and you miss great opportunities all the time.

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• There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Couple
  • New York
  • Pizza

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Want
  • You

• Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Never
  • Someone

• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Thinking
  • Confused
  • Fan

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Saying
  • Italian

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Leadership

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Myself

• I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Really
  • Chocolate
  • Cookies

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Competition
  • Hypocrisy

• In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• The author had not followed the precedents of any other artist, nor has he been able to copy Nature itself.. ..He who departs from Nature will surely merits high esteem, since he has to put before thee yes of the public forms and poses which have existed previously in the darkness and confusion of an irrational mind..

  

  Francisco Goya
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • High

• I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Small

• A woman you've endured such a gnawing of desire for, you can't help bearing a little grudge against, when the ache is gone.

  

  John Updike
  • Help
  • Desire

• Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Thought
  • Creation
  • Heritage

• It's the nature of the freelancer: you never know where you're going to be. You get great opportunities, and you miss great opportunities all the time.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Time
  • Great
  • Nature