Judith Viorst Quotes

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Judith Viorst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 2, 1932

Topics

GrowthMusicLaughterWineFriends

The thing about places like Trinidad and Jamaica is that they can be very musically insular. There isn't much space for kids making hip-hop, electronic music, or hybrid genres.

Jillionaire

MusicSpaceHip-HopPlacesMusically

Joe's been my drummer for 14 years, and we've been buddies for six years.

John Mayall

DrummerYearsBeenSixBuddiesJoe

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

Matthew Macfadyen

BirthdayChildFeelPartyNervous

The power of makeup is incredible, but the power of you is cray cray.

Anna Akana

PowerMakeupYouIncredible

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here, but journalists and writers should honestly look at their material and have a real interest, a real passion in what they want to write, and they should also have a lot of knowledge as well.

Michael Hirst

PassionKnowledgeMeKeyInteresting

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

Michael Arndt

SurpriseYouGoalWantMarchNever

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

Amy Jackson

CharacterMeMindsetYouPlayGet

Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.

Steve Erickson

GreatPeaceManWarEffortSlavery

I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it.

Sissy Spacek

New YorkBabyLovedFeelWorryYou

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

Rodney King

MusicNiceFirstFinishIndustry

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

Michel Onfray

FamilyEnvironmentGenesEvolveOur

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

Diane Mott Davidson

WorkMeWeekTeachNothingCatering

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