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Rashida Jones Quotes

In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it.

Rashida Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: February 25, 1976

Topics

Confidence College Gift Voice Know

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Joel Osteen

Feel You Know Always Coming Against

As I get older, I have a clearer sense of what's important to me.

Jennifer Connelly

Me Important Sense Get Older

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.

Matthew Quick

School High School Place New High

I have a lot of mice, I have a kitten named 'Girr,' I have an iguana named 'Invader Zim,' I have some fish, a whole buncha water snails, and a tarantula named 'Sweet Pea.'

Matthew Underwood

Water Sweet Fish Kitten Mice Whole

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

Michael Douglas

Long You Nothing Celebrity Secret

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Ambrose Bierce

Prove Judges Inquiry Formal Trial

I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight.

Summer Sanders

Travel Sleep Mind Night Wake Up Go

Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.

Trevor Donovan

Thinking Done Out Up Room Get

Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just hitting the little yellow ball and moving in between the white lines. I'm always trying to show my personality outside of the court.

Tomas Berdych

Personality Yellow Moving Trying

We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.

Maryanne Wolf

Past Limits Thought Lose Fools Go

I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.

Michelle Yeoh

Greatness Desert Landscape China Us

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

Michael Spence

Learning Father Time Parenting You