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Leslie Jamison Quotes

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to figure out what to say at the dinner table.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1985

Topics

Time Dinner Remember Trying Table

So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

Home Children Time I Am Space Black

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

Believe Worth You Down Kind Write

I love 'Scarface.'

If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.

Work Face Better You Lose I Can

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Battle Temple Who General Many Wins

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

Life Live Happy Think Design Enjoy

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Michael Mandelbaum

Music Sports Football Architecture

I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.

Logan Marshall-Green

Yourself Saying Tough Think Advice

I only dance when I go out.

Dance Go Out Only

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

Work Me Mom Jeans Dry Willing

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

Technology Space Computers Clothes

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.

Wait Wake Up Go Up Room Paint

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