Addison Timlin Quotes

I'm a sucker for Thought Catalog. Shelby Fero is really funny on Twitter. And Patton Oswalt, he's sort of like a Twitter throb.

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• I love my work but do not know how I write it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Work
  • Love
  • Know

• One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Reality
  • Jazz
  • Prism

• Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Democracy
  • Spring
  • Hell

• I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Freedom
  • Expression

• I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Done
  • Think
  • Television

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• The world is no longer against us.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Against
  • U.S.

• I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Want

• Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mistake

• We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Business
  • Food
  • Attention

• Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Think
  • Taxes

• People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Think
  • Guy

• Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Fighting
  • Gay

• I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Today

• It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Art
  • Photography

• There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Space
  • Feet
  • Separation

• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Words
  • Marriage

• Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Heart
  • May
  • Ice

• I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

  

  Constance Wu
  • World
  • Trying
  • Bad

• I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

  

  Peter Sellers
  • Funny

• I'm a sucker for Thought Catalog. Shelby Fero is really funny on Twitter. And Patton Oswalt, he's sort of like a Twitter throb.

  

  Addison Timlin
  • Funny