Monica Johnson Quotes

I realize that sometimes I get bothered when I see the world acting like the world. Did you hear what I said? The world is supposed to act like the world, and God tells us that every generation gets more wicked, so why the surprise? Maybe we have some word to swallow ourselves.

Monica Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1946 - November 1, 2010

Topics

GodWorldGenerationSurpriseActing

Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall work the other way. I find an accent and a mood, and that influences the character massively.

Joe Cole

WorkCharacterInfluencePerformance

People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true. But I think that the South is changing, slowly but surely.

Jesmyn Ward

PeopleThinkBadTrueBackwardsRap

I was an anxious kid. I worried about getting homework finished, even back when homework didn't count for anything.

Andrea Seigel

HomeworkBackKidAnythingCount

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

Mary Crosby

VacationRetirementEnjoyLongI Can

I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.

Joss Whedon

TrustExperienceMeEndPlayMovies

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Antisthenes

FriendTruthYourselfPeopleYou

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.

Alison Krauss

LifeNatureGoodAcceptanceYourself

The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

Phil Bredesen

LifeDeathPeopleDecisionsMean

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

Pete Hamill

AmbitionNewspaperKidWantedComics

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

Norman Granz

KindJazzYearsOnlyWereAlbums

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

Nick Wechsler

ForgivenessRevengeStoryRedemption

Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.

Marlon Wayans

MoneyPeopleMindWaitThinkLaugh

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