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Teyonah Parris Quotes

Whatever it is you do, study it, learn the ins and outs of it, and really work on building your craft.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 22, 1987

Topics

Work Building Learn You Craft Study

I am best viewed from a distance... and at night.

Best I Am Night Distance Am Viewed

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

Life Live Myself People Problems

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.

Michael Crichton

Think View Uncomfortable Find Become

I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.

Police Small Week Back Newspaper

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

Stephen Ambrose

Business Done Professors Big 1930s

There are a lot of misconceptions regarding the Bush tax cuts, all of them deliberately propagated by none other than President Obama and his pals. The biggest lie of them all is that these tax cuts will only affect the wealthiest two percent.

Lie Tax Will President Two Affect

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

Mary Higgins Clark

Truth Hate Me Door Truth Is Person

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Fear Day Believe You Every Day Said

It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.

Great Money Choices Famous Price

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

Miriam Margolyes

Too Much Class Far Like Much Too

I'm always very fearful when academics get ahold of comedy. Comedy is such a clear thing - people laugh, or they don't laugh. It's involuntary. I'm not saying it can't be scrutinized, it's just that they take the enjoyment out of it.

People Saying Laugh Comedy Out Take

On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending.

Future Business Words Limits Measure

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