Zosia Mamet Quotes

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

Zosia Mamet

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LifeTimeCollegeReadingMy Life

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

Anna Deavere Smith

JobThinkYouActingDisappear

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

Alvin Lee

LifeAgeMyselfKnowBigWell

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

Joyce Meyer

JoyHappyPeopleMeDoingYou

My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface.

Claire Messud

SilenceTableThreeMoreNeverSit

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.

Ashwin Sanghi

SuccessYourselfDisappointmentWorld

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

Svetlana Alexievich

GreatPeopleSufferingGreat People

It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty sure I remember it being assigned, and I generally did the reading. But I don't remember having a reaction to the book, even though I loved literature, and other works made a lasting impression on me at that age.

Susan Choi

AgeGreatTimeSchoolMeReading

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.

Richard Greenberg

BeginningMeEndMomentsPlayWay

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

Kristian Nairn

PeopleRulesWrongWhySeeJust

I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Journal,' paper version.

Kevin Nealon

New YorkEatingWallNewStreet

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.

Junot Diaz

ImaginationInfluencePrincessMars

I'm very picky about the kind of work that I do, and I'm fortunate to have been able to work with great directors and great actors who've helped me grow as an artist.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

WorkGreatMeGrowArtistKind

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