Lauren Ambrose Quotes

I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.

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• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Alone

• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Nice
  • Beginning
  • Start

• I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • People
  • Me
  • Thoughts

• I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Like
  • Fight
  • Mad

• In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Perfect
  • Space
  • Modern

• I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Kind
  • Any
  • Bigot

• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• The first job of a writer is to be honest.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Job
  • First
  • Writer

• I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

  

  Washed Out
  • Everything
  • Computer
  • Hiding

• I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Problems
  • Acquaint

• I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Fight
  • Just
  • Take

• Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Important
  • Ambition

• 'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • South

• I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

  

  Ze Frank
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  • Relationship
  • Sleep

• I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have to play a different game than men play, and you have to be a lot cleverer.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Perfect

• I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era.

  

  Arjen Anthony Lucassen Ayreon
  • Thinking
  • Genre
  • Vengeance

• Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Live
  • Health
  • Statistics

• In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

  

  Loretta Young
  • True
  • Prince
  • Princess

• Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

  

  Joe Manganiello

• I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.

  

  Lauren Ambrose