Laurie Notaro Quotes

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

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• It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Want
  • Actor

• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Edgy

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Gay
  • Retirement
  • Lesbian

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • America
  • True
  • Society

• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Change
  • Model
  • Social

• The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • World
  • You
  • Vogue

• So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • You
  • Waiting
  • Years

• Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Weird

• We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Country
  • Think
  • Investment

• Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.

  

  Victor Vasarely
  • Colour
  • Base
  • Attribute

• I get so into the moment.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Moment
  • Get

• I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• Honey, I just forgot to duck.

  

  Jack Dempsey

• 'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Stupid

• Once they notice you, Jason realized, they never completely close the file. You can never get back your anonymity. It is vital not to be noticed in the first place.

  

  Philip K. Dick

• I never go to the monitor. I just look at the camera monitor and my favorite part of all of the directing, except for the writing and editing of it, is right when we're rolling and they do lines and I'll say "Try this, try this, try this."

  

  Will Gluck
  • Writing
  • Favorite
  • Cameras

• We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Prayer

• I never like revealing too much about myself. Once you start giving people that look into your life, then they just want more and more.

  

  Lily-Rose Depp
  • People
  • Life
  • Giving

• We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Ourselves
  • Guide

• I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

  

  Laurie Notaro