Whitney Cummings Quotes

We're socially constructed to hide our flaws, and that breeds pain for a lot of people.

Whitney Cummings

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PainPeopleHideFlawsOurBreeds

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Jilly Cooper

HappinessSimpleDrinkSecretTheory

When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and progress things and move things forward. And that fascinated me, because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life.

Jeremy Gilley

LifeResponsibilityProgressMeBook

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

LifeGoodJobMy LifeWayDifficult

You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially.

Meryl Streep

WorkLovePeopleFalling In LoveYou

My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time.

Steven Wright

TimeYoungNo SenseSecretSense

I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.

Steve Martin

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You know, the emotion - it comes in my art. The kind of person I am, I can deal with things, and I do and I can, but I'm not a crier.

Mickalene Thomas

ArtI AmYouI CanPersonKnow

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Louise Bourgeois

StoryInterestingYouWillTellOwn

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.

Jason Bateman

GoodTelevisionComplicatedMoreDid

I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places where I would not see any black people at all in Boston - like, zero. And then in publishing in New York City, it was pretty much the same. I knew that it wasn't about the value of my work.

Chirlane McCray

WorkJobValueNew YorkCollegeMe

My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time... I only see what is front of me.

Cher

PassionTimeMeDoingSeeWhatever

Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others' opinions affect you is pretty amazing.

Brendan Dooling

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