Jean Stapleton Quotes

#1. First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

Jean Stapleton

#2. Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.

Jean Stapleton

#3. The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.

Jean Stapleton

#4. Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

Jean Stapleton

#5. But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people.

Jean Stapleton

#6. On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

Jean Stapleton

#7. Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

Jean Stapleton

#8. Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.

Peter Diamandis

#10. I felt sick when I thought of the end - but I really wanted to remember how. How it felt, and how I did it, so maybe I can do it again, with Roger.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. They have taught man that he is a hopeless misfit made of two elements, both symbols of death. A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost- yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost, (john Galt)

Ayn Rand

#12. You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

James Sinegal

#13. Nothing in my tale seemed to surprised the woman. The cat, on the other hand, seemed not to find a word of it credible.

Margo Lanagan

#14. While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

Arthur Godfrey

#15. There were many who went in huddled procession,
They knew not wither,
But, at any rate, success or calamity
Would attend all in equality.
There was one who sought a new road,
He went into direful thickets,
And ultimately he died thus, alone;
But they said he had courage.

Stephen Crane

#16. When man's freedom equals zero, he commits no crimes. That is clear. The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. And now, just as we have gotten rid of it (on the cosmic scale, centuries are, of course, no more than "just"), some wretched halfwits ...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#17. If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#18. The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

China Mieville