Lauren Graham Quotes
When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
-
People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
-
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
-
If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
-
In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
-
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
-
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
-
I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
-
Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
-
We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
-
Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
-
Humour allows people to exhale a little.
-
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
-
There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
-
I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
-
A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.
-
Decisions are made by those who show up.
-
Music is really something that makes people whole.
-
My favorite songwriting trick is writing something like 'XO.' In my brain, I thought, 'This is probably going to be a love song. How can I change that and find ways to twist that.' As a songwriter, it's your job for the song to take twists and turns that people don't expect.
-
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
-
You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm only kind of interested in to support my one true love, which is prose fiction.' I think you have to love what you're doing to do it well.
-
Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way.
-
When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it.
-
When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
