Kristin Bauer van Straten Quotes

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

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• I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Soul
  • Growth
  • Someone

• Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Country
  • History
  • Day

• My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Children
  • Husband

• I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Believe
  • Try
  • Disappear

• Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wife
  • Many
  • Having

• I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Power
  • Horse
  • Rise

• He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Never

• I totally want, like, 18 babies.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Want
  • Like
  • Babies

• I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman year - with Vanessa Williams, by the way. She and I are still friends. We went to high school together.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • King

• I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Want
  • Moment
  • Said

• I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Think
  • Know
  • Singing

• I would never be fearful of any character.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Character
  • Never
  • Would

• My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mother
  • Hero
  • Greatest

• I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Feeling
  • Law

• It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Life
  • May
  • Job

• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Music

• In law school, I never understood antitrust law. I later found out, in reading the writings of those who now do understand it, that I should not have understood it because it did not make any sense then.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • School
  • Law
  • Reading

• I've got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I'm dizzy, and it's something to do with that.

  

  Aphex Twin
  • Problem
  • Balance
  • Dizzy

• The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.

  

  Lee Siegel
  • Political
  • Present
  • Everyday

• I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.

  

  Dan Payne
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Acting

• This game has so many subplots because of all the ridiculous talent on the field.

  

  Chris Spielman
  • Game
  • Talent
  • Field

• The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

  

  Kristin Bauer van Straten