Jon Tenney Quotes

I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Biloxi Blues.'

Jon Tenney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1961

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I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

Jim Gilmore

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Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.

Jesmyn Ward

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All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

John Hodgman

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I don't feel awake in the morning unless I've showered.

Stella Maxwell

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We can't ask the men and women of this country to go do things for us and then, when they get home, forget about them. It's not part of the deal.

Rob Riggle

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I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.

Ruth Bernhard

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I'd rather wear black than bright florals like most fat ladies do.

Louise Wilson

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It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.

Jay Parini

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I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

Joni Mitchell

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Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!

Jon Polito

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My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

Denise Morrison

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I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

David Suchet

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