Lauren Ambrose Quotes

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

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• Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Sleep

• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • History
  • Tradition
  • Congress

• Race differences show up early in life.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Race

• My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Win

• I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Why
  • Know
  • Well

• Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Only
  • Saints
  • Acceptable

• I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Music
  • Trying

• It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Why
  • American
  • Culture

• Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Religious
  • Target
  • Radical

• When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Winning
  • Games
  • Manager

• Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Blue

• Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre-modern literature into a lucrative academic career.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • History
  • Career

• Call it not paranoia, but caution.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman

• Everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World
  • Heart

• When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• What's cool about Matador is that everyone I've met there is just so chill and really into what they're doing. Everyone that works there, there's just such a lack of ego, and there's such a commitment to what they're doing. They all like each other.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Cool
  • Commitment
  • Ego

• Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it.

  

  David Cassidy
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Up

• There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

  

  Will Durant
  • History
  • Religion
  • Aid

• Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

  

  Edward Burnett Tylor
  • People
  • Children
  • Strong

• I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

  

  Ali Krieger

• I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

  

  Lauren Ambrose