Kelly Overton Quotes

Being a mom kind of grounded me in a way. Your body takes on a whole new meaning.

Kelly Overton

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
  • Involvement
  • Off

• I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Think
  • Back
  • Take

• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Long
  • Doing

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • School
  • High
  • Movies

• There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Great
  • Tired
  • Sister

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Changed
  • Last
  • Hawaii

• Home is where one starts from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Where
  • Starts

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Small
  • Need
  • Unknown

• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Earth
  • Conversation
  • Rise

• There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Country
  • Parents

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• 99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!).

  

  Eminem
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mom

• I know the fans are very personable with my mom and things like that. They make little collages and pictures. They make edits of me and my mom together.

  

  Christina Grimmie
  • Together
  • Mom

• I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mom

• In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Today
  • Style
  • Now

• Being a mom kind of grounded me in a way. Your body takes on a whole new meaning.

  

  Kelly Overton
  • Mom