Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

Rickie Lee Jones

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FutureTimeYouWrongKindStage

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? I am so over it.

Jessica Cutler

JobI AmCareYouOverBig

When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.

Robert Rodriguez

YouDoneWantRealAlwaysFilm

I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just got work as a writer. I want to keep directing.

Jeff Baena

WorkTryingWantDirectorYearsGot

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

Simon Cowell

GreatDayCollegeNightSomeoneOld

You can live with diabetes. It's not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self control.

Tony Rock

LiveYourselfControlSelfYouSome

Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it for years. It takes something - guts, gumption, self-delusion - to ask for a reader's time when we all know there's nothing new under the sun; that it's all been said, or written, before.

Rumaan Alam

TimeSunWritingThinkDoingKnow

I'm a nationalist and populist.

Mike Cernovich

PoliticsIdentityWhiteBecomeAbout

Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

Monica Bellucci

BeingActress

Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

ChildrenMedicalSchoolBrother

I love Jim and Pam at 'The Office.'

David Walton

LoveOfficeI LoveJimPam

I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

ValuePeopleTheatreThinkAnything

Our ancestors went through so much in a fight for us to vote. So I believe that we should engage in all civic participation. It's healthy engagement.

Susan Burton

FightBelieveHealthyVoteI Believe

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