S. N. Parker Quotes

I don't feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram.

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

I never was Carrie Bradshaw, but imagine how great it was to be told, "You are obligated to kiss all these men, to dress like that, and to carry on like that!" They were great guys, too.

What you think you know versus what you actually learn.

I'm always nervous before a job! I always think I'm going to be fired, I always think I can't do it. I always think I'm going to disappoint somebody, myself included.

I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.

I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.

People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.

Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.

I really love beautiful, well-made clothes. I don't shop [a lot], so I tend to have pieces for a long time. I like mixing vintage with newer designers.

People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.

I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.

I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.

And I only do what I do in life, which is model.

Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity, too. I couldn't put it down.

The best way to improve children's performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it.

Playtime and nature time are important not only for learning but also for health and development.

Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

Love is the piety of the affections.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

I am conscious of eternal life.

I look through the grave into heaven.