Nina Jacobson Quotes

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Nina Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

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ImaginationYourselfWorldReading

When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.

John Slattery

MeAdviceSomeoneAlwaysOutUp

We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them.

Sue Hubbell

LiveBeautifulStepWorldLonely

My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

Travis Barker

SchoolHigh SchoolHighUpStill

I'm very objective driven, so for me it's very important to know who I'm fighting, when I'm fighting, and roughly the direction I'm working in. It gives me that little extra push to do what I need to do to get the sessions, to work towards something.

Robert Whittaker

WorkMeDirectionFightingPush

I still wear my write-in wristband. It used to be plastic, but my husband turned it into gold.

Lisa Murkowski

GoldHusbandPlasticWearUsed

I firmly believe that everyone should have to work in the food service industry at least once in their lives.

Judy Greer

WorkFoodServiceBelieveEveryone

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

SomeoneYouDifficultSameRecognize

I always had a frisson when I heard the Champions League music. To play in that competition, to score a goal in it, is something special for me.

Antoine Griezmann

MusicCompetitionMeGoalChampions

Watching something is a personal experience, and I think watching something that is dealing with a heavy subject matter, it's a personal thing.

Wyatt Cenac

ExperienceThinkPersonalMatter

The church must always show compassion, always.

Rick Warren

CompassionChurchAlwaysShowMust

My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo was very strong-minded and brave, and I was shy and kind of a wuss, everyplace but in my own home. I wanted to be Jo. She was my alter ego. I think reading that book gave me courage.

Rhea Perlman

HomeWomenCharacterCourageBrave

I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

ChurchUpBaptistGrew

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