Shoshannah Quotes

#1. Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.

Shoshannah Stern

#2. Men kept sticking their hands in the fire thinking this time it would not burn, so

Robert Jordan

#3. The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.

Publilius Syrus

#5. I've had worse, and I'll have better one day. This is not the end.

Peter S. Beagle

#6. Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.

Pearl Zhu

#8. I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!

Shoshannah Stern

#9. Maud: Young women are never happy.
Betty: Mother, what a thing to say.
Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.

Caryl Churchill

#10. Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.

Rick Riordan

#11. Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

Donald James

#12. Are you a degenerate, Fisher?"

"I'm working on it.

Claire Gibson

#13. I'm an actor, not a writer. I'd be pretty annoyed if the writers tried to come in and hang over my shoulder telling me how to act, so I don't go in and tell them how to write.

Shoshannah Stern

#14. I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because they're the ones who have the complete vision. They see things through from the beginning to the end. I'm responsible for one small part, so my scope is much more limited than theirs.

Shoshannah Stern

#15. I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have.

Shoshannah Stern

#16. I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn't have an agent.

Shoshannah Stern

#17. Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

C.S. Lewis

#18. A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

Beau Willimon

#19. submission. I must not sleep with it wet. I must not sleep with it wet.

Anonymous

#20. Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Max Weber

#21. A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.

Matthew Arnold