#essentially

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity. ↗

— Tina Fey

#around #became #could #essentially #fifth

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. ↗

— Imogene Coca

#butterfly #comedians #essentially #hammer #most

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way. ↗

— Barry Corbin

#car #day #down #eight #essentially

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#back #brings #dilemma #essentially #every

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#essentially #everyone #fact #guilty #himself

A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#becoming #blank #body #capable #cell

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally. ↗

— Susan George

#century #democracy #essentially #faced #get

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey. ↗

— Michael Gough

#back #donkey #end #essentially #i

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #different #different roles #essentially #form

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#average #collaboration #come #could #essentially