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Gina Barreca Quotes

I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?

Gina Barreca

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american

Topics

Life Success Effort People Help

I loved working on 'House,' but I never ever want to do another medical show. It's 'fiddly' stuff.

Jesse Spencer

Medical Loved House Want Never Show

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Work Love God Together Pain Things

It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.

Jeremy Irons

Learning Trust Friends You Go Nice

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

John Eaton

Music Hope You Know Will Become

The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.

John Updike

Farm House Visualize Fiction Lived

It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.

Amity Gaige

Culture Democracy Saying Political

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Sophie Hannah

Childhood Poetry Me Connection Wrote

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties.

Jay-Z

Family Greatness Mom Loved Early Go

I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.

Jay-Z

Hat Famous More Made Than Yankee

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Women Men Gender Numbers Nobody Buy

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.

Donna Dixon

Work Control Think Sometimes Nothing

The scariest film in the world is 'Rosemary's Baby.'

Chris Eigeman

Baby World Film Scariest