Leslie Jamison Quotes
Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
-
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
-
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
-
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
-
I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
-
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
-
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
-
I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
-
As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
-
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
-
I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
-
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
-
There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
-
I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
-
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
-
Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.
-
Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
-
Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
-
Marcone: In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.
-
I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.
-
One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around being awesome. Then I realized that getting to pretend to be me would be like shooting up heroin for anyone who played it, and I don't want that on my conscience.
-
The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
-
Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a reminder that we're all vulnerable little vessels filled by the people who can break us.
-
Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.
