Mariska Hargitay Quotes

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

Mariska Hargitay

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Future
  • Science

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Needs
  • Barbecue
  • DJ

• Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Good
  • Science
  • Professional

• 'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thankful

• As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Children
  • Remember

• Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Time
  • Community
  • Period

• The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Working

• I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Power
  • Society
  • Fall

• Despotism is a long crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Crime
  • Despotism

• Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Violence
  • Ignorant
  • Tool

• When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexism

• Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Sometimes

• I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Focus
  • Luck

• I get asked to speak to a lot of different groups, one of the best parts of my job hosting a show on the Travel Channel, 'Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.' I take viewers to the far corners of the globe and introduce them to other cultures by exploring the foods they eat - at times, pretty strange stuff.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Different
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Childhood

• I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Son
  • Childhood

• In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Life
  • America
  • Dream

• When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Together
  • Think
  • I Think

• Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Childhood