Pretty Quotes

• Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

  

  Bill Berry R.E.M.
  • Great
  • May
  • Death

• I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.

  

  Shakira
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'

  

  Rae Carson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and allowed them to live in the space instead of trying to manipulate and make it too set and too staged. Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot of being an actors' director and what that is. I've learned a lot from pretty much everybody. Hopefully I've picked up something from everybody I've worked with.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Live
  • Trying

• I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.

  

  Cheri Oteri
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• I've had some pretty rough interviews. And it's funny when people are interviewing you, and they sort of don't really understand what you do, and they kind of insult you.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Funny
  • Insult

• Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Pretty
  • Die
  • Say

• It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Everything
  • Very
  • Run

• I remember living in a pretty small neighborhood where you could play in the streets and run around like crazy. My friends and I would ride our bikes around, but instead of just riding our bikes, we were solving crimes and going out in the woods to see what lay out there.

  

  Maulik Pancholy
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Small

• I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.

  

  Matt Groening
  • People
  • Heart
  • Funny

• I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

  

  Dan Mintz
  • People
  • Character
  • Anxiety

• You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Book

• You go for an audition, and you meet a director, and you find that they don't want you. You have to have a pull with them: that they understand what you want to bring to it. That you don't want to be the pretty little thing.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Pretty

• I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• I wanted to be a serious actress rather than a pretty face.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • Pretty
  • Serious

• If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.

  

  Chris Bohjalian
  • War
  • Pretty
  • Library

• If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

  

  Rakim Hasheem Allen
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Selfish

• The United States is a huge market, and once you get rolling, you can replicate that model over and over pretty easily. Your supply lines are taken care of. You don't have technicians to deal with. You've got your customer base.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Pretty
  • Taken
  • Model

• I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young. So, I didn't think about it at the time when 'I Am Legend' came out. I just watched it.

  

  Charlie Tahan
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Legend

• Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

  

  James Patterson
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Guy

• I like 'Mad Men,' and I think 'The Killing' is pretty great too. I like 'Brothers & Sisters.'

  

  Betsy Brandt
  • Great
  • Men
  • Mad

• We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Why
  • Wonder

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