Bethany Mota Quotes

I don't just post a video and then get offline. After uploading, I love to respond to comments, tweets, and messages about the video.

Bethany Mota

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• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Church

• I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Labor
  • Intuitive
  • Courting

• If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Voice

• Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Short
  • Life Is Short

• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Play
  • Model

• I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Survive
  • Without

• I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • People
  • World
  • High

• In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Democracy
  • Process
  • Legal

• I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Money
  • Single
  • Mom

• I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Me
  • Working
  • Possibilities

• Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Popular
  • Beach
  • Los Angeles

• How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Simple

• I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Kids
  • Man
  • Film

• When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Dream
  • Fashion
  • Inspire

• News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Television
  • News

• My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Great
  • Love
  • America

• It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Age
  • Young
  • Soldier

• I guess I've got a smart wife.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Wife
  • Smart
  • Got

• Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • True
  • Sweet

• As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

  

  Curtis Armstrong
  • People
  • Long
  • Character

• Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

  

  Ray Bradbury

• How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose. "It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow." "Where do the lead?" "To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere." I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall. "Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mind
  • Purpose
  • Lead

• I don't just post a video and then get offline. After uploading, I love to respond to comments, tweets, and messages about the video.

  

  Bethany Mota