Pretty Quotes
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I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.
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Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.
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In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire - a need that drives her story - and the story's writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative.
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Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
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I've come to be pretty selective about the type of advocacy that I do, because I kind of feel like it's stronger to just do my work and let it speak for itself.
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Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.
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Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.
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You can't expect a woman who's holding down a part-time job to train for the biggest race in the world. She has to have a minimum wage, and I think it's something that is pretty crazy that we don't have that.
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I feel pretty secure about who I am.
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See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.
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When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.
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'It ain't justice, Richard, but politics, and like all politics it ain't pretty, but well done it can work wonders.'
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There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.
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There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.
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You don't know how pretty you are when you're young. Just being young is beautiful. And I was astonishingly pretty - you know, very skinny.
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One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.
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And I could go the rest of my life like this, don't get me wrong. This was reality and I'd certainly learned to adapt to that reality. I didn't love it, I'd never love it, but I lived with it pretty well.
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People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.
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The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")
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Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-
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Because when every day is the End of Days, after a while they feel pretty much like every other day, even though you know that's crazy. And nothing is the same.
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It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.
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I love playing with my dog and just sitting on the patio with people I don't get to see very often anymore. I'm a pretty simple gal.
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I'm pretty certain that I'm the only son of a billionaire who can drive a D10 Caterpillar better than I can drive a golf cart.
