Gwen Stefani Quotes

When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

Gwen Stefani No Doubt

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• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Up
  • Job
  • Writer

• I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Simple

• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Job
  • Fantasy
  • Conservative

• Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parent

• The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Know
  • Try

• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Happy

• Flowers are happy things.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Happy
  • Flowers
  • Gardening

• I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Parent
  • Lucky
  • Alive

• In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a broad base of good people: kind folks who open their homes and hearts to people of all colors and creeds, married couples with happy homes and families who live nearby, public servants who put their lives on the line to fight fires in their communities.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Job
  • Worry

• I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Myself

• I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Job
  • Game
  • Worry

• Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Life
  • Happy

• There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Time
  • Beginning

• There's always changes in the way they do that in the cinematic universe. I think, with the S.H.I.E.L.D. 2.0, you're seeing some of the first ripples of those different points of view on what S.H.I.E.L.D. should be when it's rebuilt. I'm very, very curious to know which side Coulson will end up on in that struggle.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Up
  • Different
  • Universe

• I'm a sucker for a packet of biscuits. I can eat a whole pack in 10 minutes.

  

  April Bloomfield

• When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Parent