J.D. Young Quotes

In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.

My dad was very worried that I wasn't saving and didn't have a pension. I've never invested well.

If something great comes off with the potential TV series, I will go straight to an investor this time and put my money in whatever they invest in.

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

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Save the children of the World from their acidic lifestyles and diets and their acidic parents who are feeding them.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

When you're not confident as a young woman in saying "no" or even saying "yes" necessarily, you don't know which one you're more afraid of in some way. That happens a lot.

I don't like to talk about things until I'm on set shooting them because it doesn't feel real.

Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.

We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.

I'm a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do.

I have a lot of supporters.

I don't really like doing interviews.

Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

If you really want something, you've got to keep going after it.

No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.

Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.

I'd rather work with guys that have time to live with you, and let it gel.

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like.

I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.

I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

All I have to do is play football now.

There are a lot of guys who have terrible throwing motions-worse than mine. But they still get the ball downfield. That's all that matters.

People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.