quotes about No Nonsense

“Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.”

“Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.”

“A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.”

“Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.”

“Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.”

“I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.”

Source : "‘Nurse Jackie’ Star Edie Falco On New Season, Sobriety". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

“It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies”

“Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.”

“If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.”

“We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.”