Amanda Seales Quotes

When I came into stand-up, I found a certain safe space of intellectualism, of camaraderie, of excellence that really has always been natural to me but always felt foreign in the other spaces I've been in.

Amanda Seales

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ExcellenceSpaceMeAlwaysSafe

An Episcopalian military institution when it was founded near the turn of the century, Harvard for years had an implicit quota system that effectively limited the number of Jewish admissions.

John Gregory Dunne

MilitaryJewishYearsTurnSystem

I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.

John Niven

RelationshipChildrenEndWhyNever

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

John Krasinski

FunnyGoodMomentsYouPlaySerious

When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering.

Robert J. Waldinger

HealthValueCareSeriouslyHuman

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

SuccessKnowDoneCloseHear

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

Amy Adams

WorkJobYouKnowMy OwnMean

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

Stevie Nicks

LifeLivePeopleMusiciansMovies

In America, the first thing people say is, 'What do you do?'

Simon Helberg

PeopleAmericaYouSayFirstThing

My wife gets pampered pretty well. She's had me trained since she was pregnant, when I started making her oatmeal with fresh berries every morning.

Michael Weatherly

MorningWifeMeSheFreshPretty

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Michael Palin

PeopleWorldBelieveCreatingUs

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

Julia Glass

ArtPurposeRealityMoralCreation

We cannot expect to keep our nation's secrets secure - or provide meaningful oversight for our intelligence agencies - if proper classification of our country's secrets is as likely as a coin flip.

Dianne Feinstein

IntelligenceSecretsCountryCoin

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