Lena Waithe Quotes

I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.

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• I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Pretty
  • Training
  • Thought

• I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Different
  • Me
  • Rest

• There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Limits

• I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • You
  • Passionate
  • Involved

• He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Painting

• So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hard

• I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • House
  • Bike
  • Rocks

• Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Trust
  • Dry

• What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Today
  • Week
  • Tomorrow

• Die Verehrung mächtiger unsichtbarer Wesen, welche dem hülflosen Menschen durch die natürliche, auf dem Bewusstsein seines Unvermögens gegründete Furcht abgenöthigt wurde, …

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer. We can just step off the sidewalk. And sometimes we can get impressionable members of the opposite sex to perform sacramental rites with us. 'Every drop of water wasted is a drop less of a wild and scenic river, Jennifer. We'd better double up in the shower.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Earth

• However, I am no big fan of Smalltalk either, even though it compares very favourably with most programming systems today (I don’t like any of them, and I don’t think any of them are suitable for the real programming problems of today, whether for systems or for end-users).

  

  Alan Kay
  • Real
  • Today

• The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Lies

• The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Sea
  • Chinese

• Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Freedom

• There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Jealousy

• The greatest hope for traumatized, abused, and neglected children is to receive a good education in schools where they are seen and known, where they learn to regulate themselves, and where they can develop a sense of agency.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Education

• I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

  

  Athol Fugard

• First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Movie
  • Think
  • First

• Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

  

  John Shimkus
  • History
  • Law
  • Action

• I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.

  

  Michael Socha
  • Always
  • Watch
  • Nervous

• I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.

  

  Lena Waithe