Isiah Whitlock, Jr. Quotes

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1954

Topics

TimeTrainingActingSummerThree

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

WorkGoodGoalsGood ThingsBuilding

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

Jillian Michaels

SympathyBelievePersonIronyVery

The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.

Jim Cooper

TimePeopleBraveProblemYouWill

It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.

Jessie Buckley

PeopleProblemsEasyHumanityYou

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

Andrew Lansley

BestCareHealthcarePlaceKnowSee

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

Anjelica Huston

ChildTelevisionBecauseIreland

The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.

Jef I. Richards

DayDeathPeopleAdvertisingHair

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

John Scalzi

PeopleWritingShortToleranceFind

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

John Tukey

KnowledgeWorldDirectionKeyBelief

Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.

Simon Rattle

GoodStartEverybodyEverybody Else

There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.

Tom Freston

ProblemsPresentYouNewNothing

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

Rocky Carroll

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