You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.
Dorothy Parker
Related You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with ... SARAH JESSICA PARKER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ... TEGAN QUIN Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be? ANTHONY T. HINCKS if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. JEFFREY FRY 7 Rules to a Happy Life: 1. Be humble 2. Don’t worry 3. Don't settle for les... GERMANY KENT To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR Hard core superstar by far you're the ultimate star. Do you wanna be a superstar? Well that's what y... TEGAN QUIN Be your own person, don't follow the crowd, and above all, stand out. BEN OAK It's a little bit different feeling to start out with a lead and play with it all day long, and then... OLIN BROWNE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever... GERMANY KENT Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night. SOURCE UNKNOWN These days you must be feeling tired and your legs must be paining...Dont worry,...Its only because ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It makes for an interesting weekend. You feel like there's going to be somebody shooting a really go... HEATH SLOCUM 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little old... CHARLES KELLEY People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Choose your words before talking SOTONYE ANGA He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a litt... J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN We have the capacity to become a unique and special person unlike any other. Draw on your inner reso... ANGIE KARAN If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it's ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Don't let anything... GERMANY KENT If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it's ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don't l... GERMANY KENT To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do le... MICHEL FABER So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER When you focus too much on all things going wrong, it can pull you down.Every night, before you go t... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a... GERMANY KENT Why do you eat? Why to sleep? If you cant be a trustworthy person, cant be a true lover, cant be a g... WRITER GRADED You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS You need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of lo... MIKE POSNER A birthday is a very big thing. It should be big from the minute you wake up. It should be such a bi... CATHERINE RYAN HYDE YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE WEAK Allow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling. ... JON KABAT-ZINN No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so... TOBA BETA Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it mean... BILLIE HOLIDAY To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN Be yourself....and make the world adjust! GERMANY KENT An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this wom... MOIRA KELLY If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man. MARAT SAFIN Be the Best YOU you can BE because only YOU can do that. LORRIN L. LEE No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feel... TOBA BETA If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you go... ZAKK WYLDE How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself, “How can I partic... GINA GREENLEE The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and w... GERMANY KENT Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA My request today is simple. Today. Tomorrow. Next week. Find somebody, anybody, that’s different t... DAN PEARCE To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge. CRAIG GROESCHEL too much morality, too little sense. FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL [talking about his new wife, Laura] Angus the Groom: Ignore her. She's drunk. At least I hope s... FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL Fiona: Where's Gareth? Matthew: Torturing Americans. Fiona: How thoughtful of him. FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL Tom: The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you. FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL I always just hoped that, that I'd meet some nice friendly girl, like the look of her, hope the look... FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL Everybody wants to be a hero, so to speak. But it takes everybody. Those four downs, it was somebody... CHARLES WOODSON Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY Be yourself, be who you can be. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you think you’re good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always kn... JEN WANG They are going to be real happy. You are going to get a speedier trip and a lot safer on- and off-ra... ART BROWN Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will... GERMANY KENT Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically. JULIE KLAUSNER People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL It's one of those nights where you kind of see where (Brown) is shooting wise. If he's knocking thos... DONNIE MARSH I think it's going to be a testament how we're going to communicate with each other and understand h... REGGIE WELLS People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, ... BARRY LOPEZ Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward. ZENA WYNN If you try to find success in fame or in things, you will fail. If you find happiness is the process... DEBASISH MRIDHA To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS This is Lilly Heaven saying good night, and to all a very good night. Good night everybody. Here's w... JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy SOTONYE ANGA If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can'... OTIS REDDING A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel, or not to f... AVA DELLAIRA I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'... JIMMY FALLON
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DOROTHY PARKER Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarras... DOROTHY PARKER Somebody was using the pencil. DOROTHY PARKER That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it ... DOROTHY PARKER A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially,... DOROTHY PARKER I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it. DOROTHY PARKER Byron and Shelley and Keats/ Were a trio of lyrical treats. DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them. DOROTHY PARKER "Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language DOROTHY PARKER She looks as new as a peeled egg DOROTHY PARKER She looks like something that would eat its young DOROTHY PARKER I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate C... DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and un... DOROTHY PARKER Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work whil... DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who know the storm DOROTHY PARKER People are more fun than any body DOROTHY PARKER I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule... DOROTHY PARKER I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I'd be sued for plagiarism DOROTHY PARKER There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simp... DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. DOROTHY PARKER Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing. DOROTHY PARKER I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table... DOROTHY PARKER My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air wit... DOROTHY PARKER The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe! DOROTHY PARKER This is on me. [suggested for her tombstone] DOROTHY PARKER Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to exci... DOROTHY PARKER Money is only congealed snow. DOROTHY PARKER Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I... DOROTHY PARKER