“When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.” IfsStillsI CanAmericaLosesEffortFocusSeriousLike YouHeySerious ThingsHopping Author:Maggie Q
“On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.” IfsLooksPersonsHas BeensHandsAttentionCasesIssuesOur LivesCrazyCrimeSeriousLike YouToughVictimHarmHonestly Author:Bill James
“If you're serious about singing or acting, which are two art forms that get repetitive, the way to keep the music fresh is to recognize that it is totally impossible for it to ever be the same, night after night. You open your mouth and you'd like a certain sound to come out of it, but it doesn't always come out exactly like you thought it was going to come out!” IfsWayArtTwoFormNightCertainSoundActingImpossibleSeriousLike YouSingingMouthsRepetitive Author:Mary Travers
“We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the comedian, you're the jokester, you do that I'll be the more serious one." You need that kind of balance in the family.” ThinkingNeedsKindSaidTwoArtistLeftStuffChildhoodSeriousLike YouBalanceHealthyHusbandOur ChildrenCompetitionSingersComedianMy HusbandFunny StuffHealthy Competition Author:Rachael MacFarlane
“Well, I am not always joking, sometimes I am serious. But some people always expect you to be funny. If you were like you are on stage, you would be obnoxious. With the jokes and the putdowns, I would need to take a break... juggle something.” PeopleIfsNeedsWellsSometimesWould BeBreakStageSeriousLike YouJokesObnoxious Author:Dom Irrera
“Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) gravely serious time-waster. This is your story. Try and find out what your editor wants in advance, but then try and give it to him in one piece.” WantGivingWritingTryingIdeasMatterStoriesPiecesSeriousLike YouEditorsSubmitChaptersPublishersApprovedOne Piece Author:John Creasey
“You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.” PeopleKnowsEndsSeriousLike YouSpeechScalesFreedom Of Speech Author:Salman Rushdie
“It's funny how people will think I'm being sarcastic a lot and joking. So I'll say, "I like your dress," and they'll go "(bleep) you!" Or I say something serious and they go, "Oh, yeah, ha-ha." They're strangers. They're people who know me from comedy, but luckily I am on pretty much all the time!” PeopleThinkingKnowsComedySeriousLike YouDressesYeahStrangerSarcasticKnow MeI Like YouBeing Sarcastic Author:Sarah Silverman
“Jews took it very seriously to marry other Jews and repopulate the Jewish bloodline, and my father's generation gets very serious in my household when they're like, "You have to marry another Jew," because that's still kind of the mentality coming from the baby boomers. So I know that type of pressure.” KnowsKindStillsFatherGenerationsSeriousLike YouBabyTypePressureJewMentalityHouseholdBoomersBaby BoomerBloodline Author:Logan Lerman
“Acting is fun. I enjoy it, but there is just not many opportunities to do it on a serious level. It is kind of either bad community musicals, or if you are lucky enough to be cast in something serious. I feel like you really have to be going after it, and for me I am a little bit distracted.” IfsFeelsKindLittlesEnoughOpportunityFunBitsEnjoyCommunityLevelsActingSeriousLike YouLuckyLittle BitCastsDistracted Author:Thomston
“If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business community, the energy corporations and many others, to try to frighten the population into opposing it - claiming that if they have it, all sorts of terrible things will happen, like you won't be able to heat your home, or whatever the story is.” IfsTryingStatesStoriesHomeHappensWould BeAbleEnergyCommunityUnitedUnited StatesSeriousHugeLike YouTerribleClimateClimate ChangePopulationCorporationsPropagandaHeatProposalTerrible ThingsOpposing Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.” IfsTryingEasyToo MuchPlayerCollegeSeriousLike YouCoachesCoachingLimbo Author:Geno Auriemma