Lauren Graham QUOTES

5 " What with your phone and the Xbox and the taxi TV and that music player you wear on your arm and the headphones that look like donuts on your ears, doesn’t it make life so much smaller? If absolutely everything important is only happening on such a small screen, isn’t that a shame? Especially when the world is so overwhelmingly large and surprising? Are you missing too much? You can’t imagine it now, but you’ll look like me one day, even though you’ll feel just the same as you do now. You’ll catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and think how quickly it’s all gone, and I wonder if all the time you used watching those families whose lives are filmed for the television, and making those cartoons of yourselves with panting dog tongues, and chasing after that terrible Pokémon fellow…well, will it feel like time well spent? "

― Lauren Graham , Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

6 " Because who wants to Fast Forward anyway? You might miss some of the good parts. "

― Lauren Graham , Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

7 " I guess what I’m saying is, let’s keep lifting each other up. It’s not lost on me that two of the biggest opportunities I’ve had to break into the next level were given to me by successful women in positions of power. If I’m ever in that position and you ask me, “Who?” I’ll do my best to say, “You” too. But in order to get there, you may have to break down the walls of whatever it is that’s holding you back first. Ignore the doubt—it’s not your friend—and just keep going, keep going, keep going. "

― Lauren Graham , Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

8 " In my experience, there’s no secret to accomplishing almost any goal worth pursuing. "

― Lauren Graham , Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

9 " Of all the lists I’ve made of goals, and all the visions I’ve had, it never before occurred to me that I could be this specific, that I could aspire to a goal actually measurable in inches. I wonder if this is how successful people do it. I wonder if the difference between success and failure could more accurately be described in the waist sizes for jeans. "

― Lauren Graham , Someday, Someday, Maybe

10 " Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore. "

― Lauren Graham , Someday, Someday, Maybe

11 " You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier. "

― Lauren Graham , Someday, Someday, Maybe

12 " I have to introduce the part of me that feels like a winner to the part of me convinced I’m a loser, and see if they can’t agree to exist somewhere closer to the middle. "

― Lauren Graham

13 " The lens feels like another person in the room, a person who never speaks or smiles, who only stares without blinking, never looking away. "

― Lauren Graham , Someday, Someday, Maybe

14 " I must not seek approval from absolutely everyone, or anyone really. "

― Lauren Graham , Someday, Someday, Maybe

15 " Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances. "

― Lauren Graham , Someday, Someday, Maybe

16 " Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks. "

― Lauren Graham , Someday, Someday, Maybe

17 " Maybe the trick is for me to always be in some sort of disguise, to always be dressed to play someone else. Only then can I really appreciate myself. "

― Lauren Graham , Someday, Someday, Maybe

18 " Dry-cleaning is like this secret society you’re not allowed into. No matter what, you’re at their mercy. You can have a Ph.D. in anything, but you still can’t dry-clean your own clothes. They’ll never tell you how. No one’s ever even seen what the machine looks like. Think about it. There’s a reason they keep the actual dry-cleaning apparatus hidden behind all those racks of hanging clothes. They don’t want you to crack their code. They won’t let anybody in. Not anybody. Even rich people. You know any rich people with dry-cleaning machines in their house? Exactly. Even they still have to pick it up and drop it off like everyone else. "

― Lauren Graham , Someday, Someday, Maybe

19 " Most of the streets in Manhattan go in just one direction. Some of the larger crosstown streets and some of the major north—south avenues have two-way traffic, but in general, the odd-numbered streets go west, toward the Hudson River, and the “evens go east,” as Jane, the native New Yorker, taught me. "

― Lauren Graham , Someday, Someday, Maybe

20 " But life doesn’t often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn’t be called life, it would be called vending machine. "

― Lauren Graham , Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

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