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Angela Bettis Quotes

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

Angela Bettis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1973

Topics

Time Myself Progress Perfection Grow

I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.

Jerrod Carmichael

Great Me Better Talking You Want

I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.

John Harwood

Confidence Journalism Conversation

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.

Andrea Barrett

Live People World Details Musicians

I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.

Andrew Davies

Me Think Mad Nobody Heights Adapt

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Work End Become First Modern Only

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

Amanda Seales

Music Poetry People Me Self Comedy

Growing up, I always wanted to play a fighter.

Sidharth Malhotra

Growing Up Play Growing Fighter Up

You have to keep trying to get better.

Jon Gruden

Better Trying You Keep Get

I love Twitter in particular because it allows me to grow and see how people feel about the decisions I make. My followers, they're always pretty honest with me. I love the honesty I get. I also find motivation in it.

Jon Jones

Love Honesty People Me Motivation

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

Douglas Hofstadter

Soul Evil More Out Ants Little

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

Debra Granik

Time Boring Try Tell Up Cheesy

Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.

Bobbie Ann Mason

People Me Writing Early Sixties