Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Person

• It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

  

  Manika
  • Time
  • Music
  • Important

• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Actor
  • Issues

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Mother
  • Legal

• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Enjoy

• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Meaningful

• In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Chemistry
  • Carbon
  • Organic

• I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Good
  • Want
  • Best

• We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Human
  • Birth
  • Human Beings

• I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Living

• I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Money
  • Government
  • Promise

• Talk of mysteries! - Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • World
  • Nature

• People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • History
  • Taken

• For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • People

• I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

  

  Alan Chadwick
  • Perfection
  • Technique
  • Invisible

• With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • People
  • Running
  • Everyday