Ann Dowd Quotes

Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I could say, 'Come on now, you're still working. Keep your focus where it belongs.'

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• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Time
  • Career
  • Change

• In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Powerful

• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • School
  • Career
  • Community

• I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Time
  • Good
  • Experience

• Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Sad

• The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Player

• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Career

• I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Experience
  • Crisis
  • Despair

• From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Know

• A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Different
  • She
  • Experience

• I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Family
  • Game
  • Career

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change
  • Enemy

• The experience I had seeing Star Wars for the first time was mind-blowing. Eleven is a great age to have your mind blown. I will never forget that feeling of seeing 'Long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away' fade out. It was the first time a movie made me believe in another world that way.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

  

  David Twohy
  • Movie

• I tend to be a pretty spacey and scattered person, so anything that makes me feel "grounded" comes as a welcome relief.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Welcome
  • Relief

• We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • World
  • Fighting
  • Violence

• I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.

  

  David Talbot
  • People
  • Up
  • Respect

• Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I could say, 'Come on now, you're still working. Keep your focus where it belongs.'

  

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