Elizabeth Pena Quotes

It was a lot of pressure, but I loved working with Tim and I loved working with Adrian.

Elizabeth Pena

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• I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Obsession

• Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Philosophy
  • Abortion

• I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Success

• Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Grandmother

• The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • American
  • Debate

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Girl

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Up
  • Running
  • Question

• It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Brain

• If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Always

• I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Weird
  • Kid
  • Roles

• The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Women
  • Black

• In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Effort

• It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent... The views were immensely wide - everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Long
  • History
  • Hope

• Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • People
  • Work
  • Strong

• If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

  

  Andy Warhol

• Food is the common language for all of us.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Food

• When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book. I also put the characters in a cell, and it's three stories underground, rather than on the surface. The characters have one Istanbul, the other one is above ground. One is in dark, one is in light. That kind of contradiction - those opposite sides - creates a great energy in Istanbul.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Faces
  • Characters
  • Novel

• It was a lot of pressure, but I loved working with Tim and I loved working with Adrian.

  

  Elizabeth Pena