Ellen McLaughlin Quotes
Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
-
Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
-
Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
-
I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
-
More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
-
If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
-
I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
-
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
-
You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
-
Every artist was first an amateur.
-
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
-
If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
-
You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
-
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
-
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
-
I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
-
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
-
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
-
When your economy is not growing that fast, everybody's got to bite the bullet.
-
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
-
I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.
-
I can take critism, but if it's like 'I don't like you' then I want to know why people don't like me. Why do you hate me? What have I done?
-
Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.
