Debra Winger Quotes

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

Debra Winger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 16, 1955

Topics

ChangeFriendDecisionMeMoving

The GSEs became powerful advocates for their own bottom lines, providing substantial financial support for political candidates who supported the GSE agenda.

Jerome Powell

SupportFinancialPoliticalPowerful

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

Andre Dubus III

ArtJobThinkInterestingQuestions

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

Stacy Schiff

InfluenceBookAnxietyNewReaction

We tend to think that employment is employment, and we don't ask the question: is this rewarding employment? Research establishes pretty clearly that typical notions of happiness - that more is better - really don't correspond to the way people think and feel.

Michael Spence

HappinessPeopleResearchBetterWay

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

Doc Severinsen

FocusFeelPlayJazzAlwaysComing

I'm a sucker for a good movie.

Debbie Reynolds

GoodGood MovieSuckerMovie

I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.

Chris Christie

PeopleMeToughThinkAmericaUs

Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.

Brenda Blethyn

GoodJobGood JobDaysBeingThose

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

Bono

WorldHomeworkAdmitMeetingBoring

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Bobby Knight

ToughnessMentalMental Toughness

No one reaches the Oval Office without a great deal of admiration for the institution - and himself - so it's unsurprising that sitting presidents favor the biographies of former presidents.

Anthony Marra

GreatSittingOfficeWithoutDeal

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

William Hazlitt

TravelFoolManWiseBetterWorse

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