L.V. Jones Quotes

Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete.

Every time I do a gig, my goal is getting new fans.

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.

I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.

I wanted some family structure and stability, and thats what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

[Donald Trump] doesn't have the temperament to be president.

And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.

The vast majority of the coverage had to do with him basically saying, for the first 100 days of my administration, the [Donald] Trump administration, I'd be going after people who ticked me off.

I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.

I'm not ashamed that I need glasses for distance. I did not feel like I needed to have all of that hair, which was typical Star Jones, or the extra lashes or the heavy makeup.

I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.

Bill Clinton was punished for his behavior.

[Hillary Clinton chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.]It speaks of the sexism and the misogyny in this election [2016].

I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.

There are a number of things that came out of Donald Trump so-called policy speech at Gettysburg that most of the reporters were saying were real positive things.

[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly.

First of all, Bill Clinton was an extremely good president and more importantly, the country was in a very good position when he actually walked away.

Then you got Newt Gingrich up here who - didn't he leave his wife while she was dying to marry the next wife? Give me a break, Newt.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional, but we're still family.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of.

This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of the classroom.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.