Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

Elizabeth Bibesco

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• My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Job
  • Wife

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Just

• I don't study; I create.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Study
  • Create

• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Family
  • Name
  • Vote

• I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • Work
  • Water
  • Transportation

• That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Why
  • Artist

• I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Country
  • Play
  • Feelings

• Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hate
  • New
  • New York

• Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Reality
  • Sometimes
  • Eye

• Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Help
  • Effort

• Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Chance
  • Jail
  • Ship

• Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Life
  • Believe
  • My Life

• The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Emotional

• If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Money
  • Think
  • Best

• Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Together
  • India

• Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically get to reflect different ideas. But it doesn't mean that it's not a painful process. There are some really late nights.

  

  Noma Bar
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Illustrate

• The great love of my life is music.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Live
  • Way

• It's really hard to get to know me, or any candidate. And I would be asked questions like, well, why are you really running for president?

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • President
  • Questions
  • Candidate

• The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Curiosity

• To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

  

  Elizabeth Bibesco