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Kristen Johnston Quotes

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

Kristen Johnston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 20, 1967

Topics

People Laugh Way Little Gorgeous

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

Exercise Way Minds Through Amusement

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

Thought Language Surface

Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.

Life Work Power People Amazing Look

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

Love Enough You Write Real Reason

Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Technology Science Stand Human Last

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

Children Parents You Find Living

I've always wanted to be part of a family.

Family Always Wanted Part

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Story Enough Early Know Hollywood

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Courtney B. Vance

Man Done Young Young Man Company

The thing is that, often if you have time to research a role, sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to start.

Time Research Start You Sometimes

I never see how meaty my role is. If I like the script in its entirety, the director, or if my co-star is someone I greatly admire, I sign up. You learn so much being part of a great team.

Great Team Learn Someone You Admire

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Power People American Butt Jokes

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