Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

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• I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Beginning

• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Kids
  • Identity
  • Expectations

• When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Business
  • Team

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Roots

• Angela Merkel puts Germany first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • First
  • Germany
  • Puts

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Me
  • Decisions

• Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Time
  • First
  • Programming

• What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Man

• I was born a singer. I need to do that.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Born
  • Need
  • Singer

• Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Marriage
  • Find
  • Right Person

• You can be accessible without catering to an audience.

  

  Halsey
  • You
  • Audience
  • Without

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Player
  • Environment
  • Consequences

• It will work. I am a marketing genius.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Work
  • Genius
  • Marketing

• At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Week
  • Three
  • Someone

• And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • World
  • Stop

• I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• I think as time goes on, I'm trying to get less fatalistic, because that's just one of those unhealthy, kind of dangerous head spaces to get in, of not being able to tolerate sustained positive energy.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Energy
  • Space
  • Kind of dangerous

• To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

  

  Cornelia Otis Skinner
  • Time
  • World
  • Different