Amy Jackson Quotes

I was 19 when I made my Bollywood debut with 'Ekk Deewana Tha,' and all alone in Mumbai. I would be easily affected by all that was said or written about me.

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• My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Generation
  • Tough
  • Last

• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

  Kate Mara
  • World
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • You
  • Same
  • Looking

• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Building
  • Gossip

• We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • True
  • Culture
  • Over

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Black
  • Too Much

• As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Job
  • Future
  • House

• We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Value

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Sleep
  • I Can
  • Luxury

• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Competition
  • Hypocrisy

• When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • You
  • Sorry
  • Seem

• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • God
  • Day

• I've been an actor for 14 years now and a lot of that time was spent in theatre and television. Then I moved to L.A. to try and build upon that and it's starting to pay off!

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Time
  • Theatre

• To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.

  

  Debra Messing
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • World
  • God
  • Alone

• For many of us, our smartphones have become extensions of our brains - we outsource essential cognitive functions, like memory, to them, which means they soak up much more information than we realize.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Up

• Travis Kalanick was and is the perfect person to lead Uber, a product I knew from day one was going to be big.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Perfect

• I was 19 when I made my Bollywood debut with 'Ekk Deewana Tha,' and all alone in Mumbai. I would be easily affected by all that was said or written about me.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Alone