People Quotes
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My relationship to comics isn't nearly as strong as some people's. Ha! I mean, I grew up with a comic book fanatic. My older brother was, and still is, obsessed. And I was obsessed with the fact that he was obsessed, because I was obsessed with him. But not necessarily with comics themselves.
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In L.A., people will recognize me for doing 'Girls,' but have no idea that I have ever done anything on Broadway or can sing or dance or any of that stuff.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.
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I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled in studies. I was a topper in school and college, so when I decided to become a model, people said, 'Oh your daughter is modeling,' so at least my parents could say, 'Yeah but she also came first in class.'
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Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.
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Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. -Lemony Snicket
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If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
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I loved going to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei to watch all the old Chinese people doing tai chi and practicing kung fu. The monument was made of white marble, and it was beautiful. Sometimes my dad and I would practice with them.
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That's what I need to work on - my charisma in front of people.
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When you're playing your part, you don't watch other people - you just play your part.
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The Web has incredible potential for an artist who keeps in touch with millions of people.
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Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.
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Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system.
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Whenever I try to do something, I figure out what other people aren't doing or how can I do it different or how can I stand out.
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It is important to reflect on the kindness of others. Every aspect of our present well-being is due to others' hard work. The buildings we live and work in, the roads we travel, the clothes we wear, and the food we eat, are all provided by others. None of them would exist but for the kindness of so many people unknown to us.
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If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
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I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.
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When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.
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Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't work out the way you'd hoped...their opinion shouldn't matter more than your own.
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So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, "You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why."
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I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
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For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.
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I wanted to do something new and different. People expected me to do negative roles. I wanted to break the norm, and because of that, I lost on some great work as well.
