Top 99 Breslin Quotes
#1. Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.
Tana French
#2. no matter how hard I try to stamp it down, part of me is picturing Sophie's guy cracking the password and coming up with both hands full of pics of Aislinn riding Cueball Lanigan, with Breslin counting cash in the background. "Let
Tana French
#3. I'm working on a movie called 'Virgin Mary' with Abigail Breslin. I'm also in 'Ice Age 4: Continental Drift.' And I have a television movie coming on Nickelodeon that I worked on with Nick Cannon. I acted in it, but I am more excited about being a producer!
Keke Palmer
#4. The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.
Caroline Dhavernas
#5. I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
Abigail Breslin
#6. People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.
Jimmy Breslin
#7. Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.
Jimmy Breslin
#8. I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.
Abigail Breslin
#9. Shoelaces are the first way society ties up the individual.
Jimmy Breslin
#10. I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.
Jimmy Breslin
#11. When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.
Jimmy Breslin
#13. When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Jimmy Breslin
#14. The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
Jimmy Breslin
#15. The Mets lose an awful lot?
Listen, mister. Think a little bit.
When was the last time you won anything out of life?
Jimmy Breslin
#16. Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
Jimmy Breslin
#17. The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.
Jimmy Breslin
#18. Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Jimmy Breslin
#19. I call the spot Eden," he said. "Who could not wish to paint such a paradise?
Kate Breslin
#20. I must tell you this, Maggie. Your letters are my lifeline. Your threat to stop them terrified me. Never stop writing to me, I implore you.
Theresa Breslin
#21. Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.
Jimmy Breslin
#22. I peered at his writing, but I could make nothing of it.
Then I saw why, and my soul chilled like marble.
His writing was running left to right. Not the words in reverse order, but the letter themselves. All of it. It was mirror writing- to be read by the Devil.
Theresa Breslin
#23. I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.
Abigail Breslin
#24. What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.
Jimmy Breslin
#25. I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
Abigail Breslin
#27. Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
Jimmy Breslin
#28. I love animated movies in general. I like making them.
Abigail Breslin
#29. A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
Abigail Breslin
#30. This was not completely true. I had run so fast that I still had a stitch in my side, but I did not want to be left out of their confraternity of guilt.
Theresa Breslin
#31. Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
Jimmy Breslin
#32. So the Mets are a bad ball club. All right, they're the worst ball club you ever saw. So what? The important thing is they are in the National League and they are familiar.
Jimmy Breslin
#34. I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.
Jimmy Breslin
#35. Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
Jimmy Breslin
#36. True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.
Jimmy Breslin
#38. Being illegitimate is a technicality. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with you. Men use "bastard" as a curse. But to use the term thus is to show that they themselves are less than a proper human being.
Theresa Breslin
#39. How had it come about that these particular designs were chosen as our letters? Who decreed what sound would accompany each shape? And how was it decided the manner they would come together to form a word?
'Why is this so?' I demanded to know.
Theresa Breslin
#40. What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.
Abigail Breslin
#41. The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover
Jimmy Breslin
#42. I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.
Jimmy Breslin
#44. In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.
Theresa Breslin
#45. My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
Abigail Breslin
#46. They spoke politely and with deference to the adults, whereas it went against my nature not to speak plainly. To many people speaking plainly is the same as speaking rudely. Whereas to me, if one was direct, it saved time and misunderstanding.
Theresa Breslin
#47. If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.
After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.
Theresa Breslin
#48. Never let anyone try and make you into something that you're not. Remember what it is that you want, and always stay strong in that.
Abigail Breslin
#50. If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.
Jimmy Breslin
#51. The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Jimmy Breslin
#52. I wasn't exactly known for self-confidence, but I could taste the cake in my mind. Strong. Earthy. Fragrant. I remembered the nose-prickling aroma of cinnamon when it comes in fragile curls, and the startling power of crushed cloves.
Ruth Reichl
#53. Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.
Jimmy Breslin
#54. I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
Abigail Breslin
#55. I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
Abigail Breslin
#57. Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
Jimmy Breslin
#58. Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
Jimmy Breslin
#59. Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
Jimmy Breslin
#60. Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
Abigail Breslin
#61. I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
Abigail Breslin
#62. I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
Abigail Breslin
#63. Reporting is all about legwork, getting out and finding the story. But all the stories are on the top floors, so you have to learn to climb stairs. That's what reporting is all about, climbing tenement stairs.
Jimmy Breslin
#64. In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.
Theresa Breslin
#66. Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin
#67. I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
Jimmy Breslin
#68. If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Jimmy Breslin
#69. I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
Abigail Breslin
#70. That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.
Jimmy Breslin
#73. Pointing to the mutual envy of businessmen and politicians who are often out of their field in each other's area,, the author quotes the wisdom, A wise shoemaker sticks to his trade and maintains a mouthful of nails.
Jimmy Breslin
#74. What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.
Theresa Breslin
#75. It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
Abigail Breslin
#76. People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'
Abigail Breslin
#77. It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.
Abigail Breslin
#78. The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.
Jimmy Breslin
#79. What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
Theresa Breslin
#81. A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.
Jimmy Breslin
#82. The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
Jimmy Breslin
#83. Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..
Jimmy Breslin
#84. Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.
Theresa Breslin
#86. I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.
Abigail Breslin
#87. I am not a doctor,' I replied, 'I only help those who come to me in desperation. When a man is brought to me naked I do not know his race or allegiance. I will treat the sick, and if you do not allow me to do so, then I will treat no one.
Theresa Breslin
#88. Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.
Jimmy Breslin
#89. Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
Jimmy Breslin
#90. The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?"
I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.
Theresa Breslin
#92. One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and had similar life experiences.
Theresa Breslin
#93. The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
Jimmy Breslin
#94. I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
Abigail Breslin
#95. Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
Jimmy Breslin
#96. Sometimes people do what they think is for the best, and their intentions are misinterpreted.
Theresa Breslin
#97. Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Jimmy Breslin
#98. I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.
Abigail Breslin
#99. I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.
Jimmy Breslin
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