Roxane Gay Quotes

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.

Roxane Gay

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MarriageHappyParentsI CanSee

My husband is actually Italian-American, and he thought I was Italian when he first met me.

Andrea Navedo

MeHusbandThoughtFirstItalianHe

In business, experience is the big teacher.

Matthew Stewart

BusinessTeacherExperienceBig

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

Michael J. Fox

FocusMeYouLookWayWorst

When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it.

John Travolta

CharacterRelationshipThinkYouSay

I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.'

Spike Milligan

LifeStarsSkyI AmMeLooking

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.

Shirley MacLaine

FamousProblemKnowYoungMoreReal

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

Mary Astell

LoveBestThinkPleasureBeingMost

I came out the womb dancing.

Michael K. Williams

DancingOutI CameWombCame

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LifeExcellenceActingPlayMatters

I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.

Cindy Crawford

PeopleFaceHypocrisyHideDown

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Clarence Darrow

SpeakLearnYouGoingEnglishEven

I don't think I'm on the studio president's list: 'The movie's going to star Cannavale.' That's not happening.

Bobby Cannavale

ThinkPresidentStarGoingHappening

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