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

• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• 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

• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• 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

• Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Live
  • Children
  • Done

• According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat.

  

  Moliere
  • Live
  • Eat
  • Philosopher

• Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space.

  

  Dule Hill
  • Up
  • Work
  • Space

• They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Past
  • Present
  • They Say

• What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' was on TV, and they don't really make movies like that anymore, just simple and scary. The truly scary thing is, 'I'm going to threaten your life, I'm going to threaten the people you love. What are you going to do about it?'

  

  Katie Aselton
  • People
  • Life
  • Simple

• 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
  • Live