Leslie Jamison Quotes

Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'

Leslie Jamison

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• Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Business
  • Advertising
  • Risks

• I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

  

  Halsey
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Always

• I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Would
  • Sure
  • Babysitting

• Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • People
  • Growth

• Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

  

  Larry Wall

• 'It must be a real one-horse town.'Auger shook her head as she lit a cigarette. 'It has wild ambitions of becoming a one-horse town.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Real
  • She
  • Horse

• I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me. I could cry, because she's everything to me. I feel so blessed to be taught so much by her.

  

  Alicia Coppola
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• Youku Tudou gives us the reach into China that we've been looking for, and we look forward to sharing even more content with international audiences in the near future.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Future

• I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I've done some films that, on paper, were really interesting and special. And for some reason, when they got on screen, it just didn't work. Well, I didn't get to watch the film before I decided to do it.

  

  James Marsden
  • Work
  • Done
  • Interesting

• If I were writing an article for the newspaper, it would be thesis statement, information, information, supporting arguments. That would be the setup. When I'm making a documentary, the pacing of the film and the way that you sort of switch from character to character - all of those are more about storytelling than straight journalism.

  

  Marshall Curry
  • Writing
  • Character

• You have to learn to believe you deserve love. And I'm getting there. I'm starting to believe it.

  

  Leah Remini
  • Believe

• The anglophones are Quebecers, as are the French, as are the new Quebecers.

  

  Pauline Marois

• I'd like to think I'm funny.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Funny

• I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.

  

  Cynthia Voigt
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Lost

• I've known who I am as an artist for a long time; 'Idol' has shown me what I'm capable of. I know it's all possible for me now. I can go in any direction I want. I'm forever grateful to them.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Time
  • Long
  • Forever

• I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Time
  • Remember

• Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Eye
  • Judge

• I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

  

  Dennis Potter
  • Age

• When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Alone

• I was glad to be sober, but after ninety days, people weren't patting me on the back anymore, sayin', 'Good job on the sobriety! Go get 'em!'

  

  Chris Farley
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Sobriety