Laura Benanti Quotes

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Man

• Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • You
  • Need

• I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Women
  • Free

• It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Nice
  • Again
  • Be Nice

• Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Look
  • Fans

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Love
  • Everything
  • Cooking

• My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Mother

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • People
  • Live
  • Advice

• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Science
  • Know
  • Progress

• I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lucky
  • Got
  • Seasons

• My brothers kept me relevant. They got my back 100%. After all the times I've been incarcerated, they've always had my back.

  

  Offset Migos

• The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • History
  • House
  • President

• The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.

  

  James Carville

• Things are steadily coming better, but I'm having problems with a few places on the track.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Problems
  • Track
  • Places

• Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

  

  Laura Benanti
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