Leandra Medine Quotes
I realized that if I were a 23-year-old girl getting married, and I wasn't struggling with it, that would likely mean that something was either massively wrong with me or that my brain is made up of delicately wrapped almonds that serve perfectly as party favors.
Quotes to Explore
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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We shred every day.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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As far as being locked into one certain thing, that's not what I want to do. I just want the opportunity to go off and do something else, whether it's plays or musicals or whatever.
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The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when you're there that things are a lot narrower than you thought. It's a little bit of a let-down.
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Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.
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I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.
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Sometimes you got to put somebody in their place, let them know that you mean business and you're a grown ass man.
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I realized that if I were a 23-year-old girl getting married, and I wasn't struggling with it, that would likely mean that something was either massively wrong with me or that my brain is made up of delicately wrapped almonds that serve perfectly as party favors.
