Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

If you're going to make a statement, I think you should write it in prose and make a statement. If you have characters who are mouthpieces for a point of view, then you have to be very clever about disguising it.

Kenneth Lonergan

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ThinkViewYouPoint Of ViewClever

I'm very confident with myself and, like, yeah, everyone has little issues about themselves, but I don't, you know... I don't really worry about it.

Joanna Krupa

MyselfConfidentWorryYouKnow

Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.

John Bytheway

WildernessYouGoSometimesLand

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

GodTruthMenYouTellExist

I feel like most standup comedians do it the way I did it, where you just go to open mics and cut your teeth. Sketch and improv - they take a lot of classes. It's not unusual, the way I did it. It's just that, with standup, no one knows how to start because there's no book for it; there's no place you can really go.

Michael Che

StartBookFeelYouPlaceSketch

I'd be lying if I said the success means nothing to me. It does. I enjoy it and live a pretty great life.

Michael Connelly

LifeSuccessLiveGreatMeEnjoy

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Steve Jobs

FatherMotherSchoolParentsCollege

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

GreatFeelWhoTeenagerDoes

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

Suge Knight

CharacterWalkManGameImpossible

Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.

Tom Stoppard

TimePeoplePresentWithoutUsCome

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

Rita Ora

MusicYourselfYouExpress Yourself

We were brought up to think we were amazing. Maybe I was too confident, too full of myself. I found school difficult. I'd get followed home by 20 kids throwing stuff at me. The teachers didn't like me, either. We left Ireland for Manchester when I was 12, and I was happy to go.

Roisin Murphy

HomeMyselfSchoolHappyAmazingMe

Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.

Michael Nutter

CarDayWorldYouEvery DayKnow

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