- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cleverest
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys' school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls' school.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I panicked in my 20s and 30s about whether I was doing the right thing. I was an excited puppy, wanting to please people and feeling guilty that I'd had a privileged education and an acting career.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a bit of a Bertie Wooster about my father. He's very easy-going, he never judges people, and we get on brilliantly.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That's what I would like on my last day.
- Christmas Tree
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put up my Christmas tree entirely too early. I'm one of those people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the things I enjoy about acting is the transformation, and part of that is certainly the physical transformation. If people are confused forever, wondering where they have seen me before, that feels like exactly where I want to live. It feels like something's working.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that the best compliment I have gotten is from teachers who say they can tell that my kids come from a big family because they can see that they anticipate other people's needs and they don't think the world revolves around them.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because a lot of people really associate liberalism and Democrats with tolerance, and I found it to be quite the opposite. They're tolerant as long as you agree with them! I felt like not only was I tolerant, I was curious and open-minded.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that the enemy of upward mobility is not poverty or even other people's success. The enemy of upward mobility is apathy and an educational system that offers choice to the privileged and traps the most vulnerable in unsafe and poor performing schools.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020