Marlo Thomas Quotes
Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
Quotes to Explore
-
I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
-
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
-
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
-
I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
-
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
-
The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
-
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
-
Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
-
It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
-
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
-
They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
-
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
-
I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
-
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
-
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
-
I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
-
I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
-
When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
-
I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.
-
Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.
-
For me, personally, the most difficult moments had to do with not just terrorist attacks, but also shootings.
-
Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.
-
Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
