Mara Wilson Quotes
People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.Mara Wilson
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson -
But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
Waylon Jennings -
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Ida B. Wells -
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
Barry Eichengreen -
I'm an actress, not a pinup.
Francesca Annis -
Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
Wayne Rogers
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
Sam Smith -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
I don't know the right way to retire.
Barry Sanders -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
Vidya Balan -
Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
Olly Murs -
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. Kinsella -
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
Hallie Ephron -
Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.
Mary Browne -
Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.
Beverly Cleary -
I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.
Elizabeth Wurtzel -
In my hut this spring, there is nothing - there is everything!
Eden Phillpotts -
People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
Mara Wilson