Crystal Bowersox Quotes

Everything is pre-taped these days, but I'm a believer in, 'If you can't do it live, don't do it.'

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• A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Too Much

• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Think

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • House
  • Start
  • Stone

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Grow
  • Older

• I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Deep

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Impossible

• I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Night
  • Car

• Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Banking

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Work
  • Animals
  • Medical

• Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Yourself
  • Advocate

• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Culture
  • Faith

• I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Day

• People look at my tattoos, and the majority of them are religious images, so people think, 'Oh, he must be very religious'. I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people.

  

  David Beckham
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.

  

  Jim Davis
  • Life
  • World
  • Dream

• Everything is pre-taped these days, but I'm a believer in, 'If you can't do it live, don't do it.'

  

  Crystal Bowersox
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