Cory Monteith Quotes

It's always exciting to explore adult roles when the vast majority of viewers that have seen me on TV know me from 'Glee,' from something of a different tone.

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• My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Together
  • Fire
  • Athlete

• Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Christmas
  • Pajamas
  • Elves

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Source

• I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Like
  • Denial
  • Repression

• You just have to take control of your own performance.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Control
  • Performance

• I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Yourself
  • Mirror
  • Choice

• Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Kind
  • Doing
  • Pressure

• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Long
  • Challenge

• I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Great
  • Heart
  • America

• My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Stability

• As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Thinking

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• A new regime would have become the United States’ responsibility. Conceivably, this could have led the United States into a more or less permanent occupation of a country that could not govern itself, but where the rule of a foreign occupier would be increasingly resented.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

  

  Kurt Schwitters
  • Work
  • Art
  • Picture

• I watch clothes on other people, and it's like having a conversation before opening your mouth. For me, clothes come from the mind. They represent what's happening inside, and as long as they feel honestly like what I'm thinking about and going toward, I'm happy to bounce around and experience different things.

  

  Brie Larson
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• It's always exciting to explore adult roles when the vast majority of viewers that have seen me on TV know me from 'Glee,' from something of a different tone.

  

  Cory Monteith
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