Alex Rocco Quotes

I don't mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things - read the trades, know what's going on in the town. I call it 'dare to be stupid.' The worst thing they can say is, 'We got nothing for you.' So I've hustled a lot.

Alex Rocco

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• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Losing
  • Circle

• The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • May
  • Dangerous
  • November

• Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Music
  • Meditation

• When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Help

• I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Driving
  • Saying
  • Ice

• I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Power
  • Starting

• Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Just

• I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Great
  • Women

• Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • World
  • Loved
  • Talking

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • May
  • Day

• I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Long
  • Couple

• I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Teacher
  • Years
  • Said

• Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Relationships

• To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Writing
  • Driving
  • Train

• One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • May
  • Age
  • Change

• It's taken me a long time to get back into the industry. People were not really open to me working, or being a part of the industry.

  

  David Caruso
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

  

  Jake Lloyd
  • Rest
  • Star

• When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you become protective about your inner world.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Wonder
  • Songwriter
  • Inner World

• I know there are no sure bets or overnight miracles.

  

  Denise Morrison

• Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• I don't mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things - read the trades, know what's going on in the town. I call it 'dare to be stupid.' The worst thing they can say is, 'We got nothing for you.' So I've hustled a lot.

  

  Alex Rocco
  • Stupid