Jessica Williams Quotes

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.

I'm much more of a Leo than I am a Cancer.

Just because it is Christmas doesn't mean you should bottle all your feelings up. Mind you, sometimes being a good wife does mean knowing when to shut up.

A lot of people say the middle child is the most adventurous. That's me!

One good thing about being in business is you learn to compromise. And so you learn to strike a deal that maybe isn't what you were looking for but is better than what you've got.

There has to be a very good balance between being aggressive and then being able to defend as well.

I think with the right leadership on both sides and the right president, we can get a lot done.

You can point fingers on both sides. But only one side ever tried to fix the problem, and that is the Republican side.

I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a listening.

I think we have a normal father-and-son relationship. But like any other relationship, we have our differences. But we always seem to work out our differences. Believe it or not, our personalities are similar. We're both fiery and passionate.

Most of Charlotte's character is really who she is. A lot of who Ashley is is Charlotte and the same with my dad. It's not like I'm the Joker.

Me and my brothers all have different personalities and we definitely clash over living together in a small space.

I'm a Leo, with an Aquarian mid-heaven, so I can be mistaken for an Aquarius. My Sun-Uranus conjunction in Leo makes me an honorary Aquarian anyway.

Whether we notice it or not, we spend our days negotiating for something: for our spouse to do more housework, a child to eat just three more bites or go to bed on time, an extended deadline on a project, a salary increase, a better rate on a vacation package.

From collaborating with other people, you make concessions, and those concessions are great because sometimes you are definitely wrong.

In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.

It's always a balance... being clear-headed but being aggressive and as combative as you need to be.

Soha is a very balanced and intelligent girl. She does advise me at times. We do discuss films but the decision rests with the individual. We are both strong characters and so at times our fights turn volatile. But me being a Gemini, I blow hot and cold, so I usually patch up in 10 minutes.

In a marriage, we have to accommodate each other's views.

Sometimes I'm a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it's good to have both.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.