#aid

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it. ↗

— Storm Jameson

#laid #less #moment #talked #words

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens. ↗

— Allison Janney

#agent #any #i #know #lesbians

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha. ↗

— Allison Janney

#emmy #enough #i #make #people

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#am #death #dying #i #i am

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it. ↗

— Jam Master Jay

#back #because #day #fad #hip

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#answer #cannot #form #found #govern

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#child #did #ever #hand #i

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#enthusiasm #flunked #grade #i #just

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#anybody #else #ever #like #risks

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it. ↗

— Joan Jett

#attention #been #doing #i #life