Mark Pellegrino Quotes

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

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• To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Life
  • Pro-Choice
  • Legislatively

• I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Different
  • She
  • Beautiful

• In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Money
  • Like
  • Car

• I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Alone

• When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Challenge
  • Try
  • Mountains

• In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Focus

• I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Great
  • Size
  • Teeth

• This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Up
  • You
  • Opportunity

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

  

  Edith Head
  • Yourself
  • Hunger
  • Diet

• It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Propaganda

• A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Painting
  • Find
  • Tough

• Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Voice
  • Humble
  • Artists

• Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Ability
  • Reputation

• The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Soccer

• The thing about Parsons compared to the other schools is that it really teaches you how to be a designer, whereas some of the other schools teach you to sketch or teach you the technical skills. But the curriculum at Parsons when I was there was how do you put a collection together, as well as all the technical stuff. It's the best training.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Together
  • Best
  • Training

• People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays it down. His decision is binding.

  

  Anthony Powell
  • People
  • True
  • Decision

• We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Up
  • Different
  • House

• You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Father

• I think it'd be the coolest thing if I could get a role in a dance movie. That's something I'm always going to love.

  

  Kelli Berglund
  • Movie
  • Dance

• Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Like
  • Choice

• I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

  

  Mark Pellegrino