Jo Graham Quotes

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

People always remember the second half.

Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

I view every game I play for England as it could be my last, so I go out there and enjoy it. It's the only way I can approach it.

I do believe that we’re in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with Hill Street.

I had a great dad and we had a great relationship, but he's still a part of my life.

If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.

I'm lucky enough that, in my career, people think that attaching my name to something helps it a little bit.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.

Being a showrunner is tough, but it is incredibly rewarding and it is, without a doubt, the best job I've ever had.

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew.

For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.

If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it.

It's not facts that hurt people, it's their attitude towards facts.

What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice.

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.

O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?

It hurts so good and I feel euphoric after . . . yoga people on a whole are super cool and everyone is there to work on their own thing.

If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to make a muddle of it.

Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.

I don’t ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I’m not working I’m not at peace.

I love being on tour; I love being on the road. Its the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I love it.

In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".

As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on

I'm nice, and I show up on time.

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.

I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.