Amber Tamblyn Quotes

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

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• Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Care

• Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Up
  • Movie
  • End

• I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Kind
  • Sarcastic
  • Cynical

• It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Trust
  • Strange
  • Grow

• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Real
  • Why
  • Small

• The interweb's got a weird vibe.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Weird
  • Got
  • Vibe

• When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Future
  • Risk

• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Really
  • Percent
  • Active

• I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Man
  • Know
  • Temptation

• If you're a competitor, you want to win. That's enough to play for, simple as that.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Want
  • Simple
  • Win

• There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Success
  • Two
  • Commercial

• The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Country
  • Intellectual
  • Countries

• If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • You

• It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• I've always wanted to do action stuff. I like it. You really want something that's special; that's got something special about it and not cheesy, I guess. I'll tell you something, it's fun, it's different. Comedy is difficult. Doing comedy is very difficult. Action stuff is fun.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Action

• What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more money for myself, for Christ's sake. This is the reason Patagonia exists - to put into action the recommendations I read about in books to avoid environmental collapse. That's the reason I'm in business - to try to clean up our own act, and try to influence other companies to do the right thing, and try to influence our customers to do the right thing. So we're not going to change.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Friends
  • Parents