Elizabeth Moon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
-
I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
-
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
-
I don't care about revenues.
-
The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
-
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
-
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
-
I have a great office.
-
I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
-
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
-
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
-
You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
-
Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
-
The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
-
I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
-
I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
-
I would like to play Broadway!
-
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
-
A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.
-
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
-
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
