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

• 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

• It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Art
  • Attention

• I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • People

• As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Band

• To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you're working on. You have to learn to listen to your instincts. Absorb other people's advice, opinions, or whatever it may be from the outside world, but at the end of the day, you have to be true to whatever it is that you're trying to say in that work.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Artist
  • Instincts
  • Medium

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

  

  Mariska Hargitay