It’s always nice when you do something and it’s well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
Why, I ask, isn’t it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
I binge write. I think it’s because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
I pay parking tickets. You know, you can try to give 50%, but then they charge you all those penalties! Seriously, I have gotten many, many, many tickets in my life.
I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.
I don’t want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn’t be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
The most important thing is, whatever you do decide to choose, take it seriously and do your best.
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person – the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person’s public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.
It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so.
I’ve stopped taking myself seriously because now I understand how fickle my thoughts are.
But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it’s nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it’s a group of people I’m dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.
I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.
If people are taught wrong, raised wrong, or haven’t taken the Bible seriously enough, then they can go into academic error, emotional error, psychological error.
I’ve become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it’s usually attached to something else that’s really, seriously bad. I don’t traffic in nostalgia. We’re becoming a global culture.
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.
Captain Yoo Si Jin is most similar to me. He takes his job very seriously, but in his free time, he’s playful.
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
There’s something about compassion that causes society to say, ‘We’re going to take this person seriously.’ Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn’t rejected by society.
You don’t have to take yourself so seriously all the time.
Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn’t mean you have to take yourself too seriously.
I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don’t wear a tie?
Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.
When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you’re like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about.
Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn’t normally.
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.
Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation’s efforts to support children’s health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.
As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
A lot of people don’t know this, but when ‘Dancing with the Stars’ first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.
When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it’s all good, but I don’t take it too seriously.
We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I’ll be able to appreciate the money we’ve made.
I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.
The reason I don’t do the Flair Flop anymore is because women’s wrestling is being taken so seriously. I’ll only perform something comedic like that at a house show.
I didn’t just want to be Frank’s daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It’s not a joke to me.
I’ve never been seriously involved with anyone. I’ve certainly never been in love. I’ve always preferred to keep things casual.
Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.
I’ve been sober now for a couple of years and I’m taking my sobriety very seriously – one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.
I take all of my music seriously and personally.
Something I took away from Kurt Angle’s Hall of Fame speech was never be afraid to make a fool of yourself, and don’t take yourself too seriously. I really let that sink in and ran with it.
The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can’t take myself too seriously.
While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I’ve survived under the worst of eras and times, and I’ve always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.
We should take astrology seriously. No, I don’t mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.
And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn’t taken very seriously then.
I love to dance. But I don’t like being up in front of tons of people. I didn’t have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn’t something I ever seriously considered.
I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.
Drama lives on conflict. If you’re trying to deal with social issues seriously, there’s no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
