Kara DioGuardi Quotes

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

Kara DioGuardi

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• In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Career
  • Success

• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
  • Values
  • Talking

• In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Favorite
  • Grammar

• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
  • First
  • Champion

• I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brave

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Men
  • Free
  • Freedom

• In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Matter

• We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Revolution
  • Battle
  • Ending

• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Funny
  • Politics

• I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Love
  • Character
  • Me

• When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • American
  • First
  • India

• I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Handsome

• The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Gay
  • Red
  • Living

• I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• I'm 5 foot 2. I wish I were 5' 6. Everyone who meets me says, 'Oh my God. You look so much taller in person.'

  

  Emma Roberts
  • God
  • Wish

• I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • World
  • Good
  • Home

• We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

  

  Edward Kennedy
  • Support
  • Decision

• 'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • People
  • Love
  • Together

• When people silo themselves by belief, only affiliating with like-minded media organizations and people, we lose the opportunity for genuine conversation, much less persuasion.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People
  • Opportunity

• I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Up
  • Live