Mariska Hargitay Quotes

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

Mariska Hargitay

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• I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Important
  • Why
  • Better

• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Always
  • Once
  • Cubs

• I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • American
  • Help
  • Soul

• Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Performances

• If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.

  

  Foster Friess
  • War
  • Look
  • Old

• I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Water

• Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Real
  • Question
  • Answers

• I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • High
  • Wish
  • Stupid

• I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Trying
  • Black

• Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Musical
  • Directions
  • Remind

• Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Action
  • Never

• I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Up
  • Time
  • End

• Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Giving
  • Yourself
  • Loss

• As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.

  

  J. Smith-Cameron
  • Family
  • Child
  • Sister

• I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Tired
  • Year
  • Sickness

• We need to work to keep from getting rusty.

  

  Jesse Stone
  • Work

• I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit to subdue my corruptions, my pride, my evil passions, my inordinate love to the creature. Afflictions soften my hard heart, bring me to my knees, increase faith, increase love, increase humility, increase self-denial. Afflictions make me poor in spirit, and nothing in my own eyes.

  

  Joseph Williams
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Mean

• People who no longer play, gradually lose the value of all things.

  

  Adriano Celentano
  • People
  • Play
  • Value

• There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

  

  Diana Krall
  • Character
  • Singing

• There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a more personal level. He had moved to the Fairfax area, not realizing that it's a super Jewish part of L.A. He told me, I don't understand why American Jews feel this connection with me. I was embarrassed because I was feeling that connection with him, too!

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Trying
  • School
  • Remember

• There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

  

  Mariska Hargitay