Laz Alonso Quotes

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

Laz Alonso

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• In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • College
  • Beginning
  • Summer

• His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Failure

• If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • Up
  • I Can

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Want
  • Black

• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Start

• What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Home
  • Book
  • Morning

• But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Remember
  • History
  • Opportunity

• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pressure

• I do suspect that this world is hell.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • World
  • Hell
  • Suspect

• When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Doing
  • Saying

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Think
  • Want
  • Cloud

• In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Mother
  • Bible
  • Drink

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
  • Grew

• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Done
  • Effort

• 'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Choices
  • Happen
  • Fact

• It is amazing that you now have a bus company in Ballymena producing world class buses for Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Las Vegas.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • World
  • Amazing
  • Vegas

• I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

  

  Lee Majors
  • Believe
  • Age

• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Deity
  • Complicate
  • Midway

• He was just Ron and I kinda liked him, mostly because he wrote well, and I never felt he took all that Scientology nonsense seriously but knew how to make a good buck, and he liked me, and... well, he was a friend who died.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Good
  • Friend

• Harry Dresden: Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Up
  • Time
  • Survival

• I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Time
  • Music
  • Period