Erika Christensen Quotes

Those auditions - you sit down, and literally the whole time you're there, they scrutinize you, and you know that. But you can't take it personally.

Erika Christensen

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Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don't understand it.

John Hodgman

FootballPeopleMeThinkYouRules

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.

Stephen Merchant

FunnyCarWifeMeNew CarSaying

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

Robert De Niro

WorkDisciplineWayAnarchyCertain

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Rita Mae Brown

MyselfMeTemptationFindI CanWay

One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, 'Please save someone else's job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me - and just lay me off.' I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic.

Loni Love

DayJobBossMeSomeoneBack

I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.

Jean Craighead George

AnimalsOutWatchRollJustWould

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

Jason Calacanis

FightEntrepreneurEverythingUpGot

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

Jonathan Sacks

ScienceWhyWillExplainTellUs

There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.

Jonathan Turley

PeopleHimGetCannotBarack Obama

When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.

Bonnie Hammer

MeResearchFindBoringOutThings

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

Anne Parillaud

LawyerThoughtMotivationYouCareer

Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantanamo more or less continuously, kept awake for much of that time by loud music being blasted when he was falling asleep, doused with water and subjected to cold temperatures, kept naked and forced to perform tricks as if he were a dog.

Peter Bergen

DogMusicJanuaryTimeWaterCold

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