Lynsey Addario Quotes

It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.

Lynsey Addario

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • You
  • Dog

• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Independent
  • Movies

• First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • First

• Practices were tough.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Tough
  • Were
  • Practices

• Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Want
  • Sex
  • Just Because

• Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Guitar

• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Civilization
  • Felt
  • Poison

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Learn

• Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Respect
  • Responsibility

• I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Champ
  • Wallace

• Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Always
  • Gym

• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Politics

• The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Change
  • Day

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Today
  • Parents

• I don't think of myself as a kind of celebrity, but wherever I go, people know me; they greet me.

  

  Ricardo Salinas Pliego
  • People
  • Celebrity
  • Wherever

• I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Hate

• For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

  

  Rachel True
  • Me
  • Hair
  • Movies

• I feel like hair is the number one thing that makes me feel beautiful or not. If I have really bad hair, but my makeup's beautiful and I have a wonderful dress on, I'm still not happy. So if I wake up, and I've got 2 big zits on my face and my hair looks fierce, I feel ok. I have a weird hair obsession.

  

  Amber Stevens
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

  

  James Lapine
  • Movie
  • Nice
  • Theatre

• It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Country
  • Nice
  • Hair