Keren Woodward Quotes

It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.

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• First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Positive
  • Model
  • Try

• If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Power
  • Guardian

• I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Holy
  • Holiness

• I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strength

• I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Work
  • Present

• Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Like
  • Acting

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Team

• When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Kid

• During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Time
  • Work
  • Space

• There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Nothing

• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • You
  • Surrender

• I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Kids
  • Hip Hop

• You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • You
  • Best
  • Looking

• If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • You
  • Like
  • Look

• What is all this juice and all this joy?

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Joy
  • Juice

• I was born with this talent, so I've just worked hard, and now it's gone well for me. But I'm not going to lie - I didn't expect to be top of the Premier League.

  

  Riyad Mahrez
  • Talent
  • Expect
  • Top

• Sometimes the scene is a sad scene but you have to play it with a laugh to find out that that doesn't work or that there's really a part of that in it, and that's what rehearsal is for, to take that time.

  

  William Fichtner
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Laughing

• The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Different
  • Important
  • Government

• War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Object
  • Foreign War

• It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Talent
  • Sing