Jordana Spiro famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.
-- Jordana Spiro

#Thinking #Air #Years
Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.
-- Jordana Spiro

#Careers #Income #Attention
The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.
-- Jordana Spiro

#Hours #Uncommon

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didnâ€™t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.
The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill, the fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

Jordana Spiro famous quotes

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