Marta Kristen Quotes

I guess I'm a born ham.

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• Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • You
  • Mean
  • Singing

• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • America
  • Creative
  • Solitude

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Thoughts
  • Products
  • Whatever

• I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decency

• On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Experience
  • Leader
  • Chinese

• If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Worst
  • Possible
  • Too

• I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Time
  • Listen
  • Conservative

• I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Talent

• Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

  

  Val Guest
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Favourite

• Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Trying
  • Relationship
  • Acting

• I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Relationship

• I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Person
  • Travel

• Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Good
  • Support
  • Party

• All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Society

• I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Reading

• I've always been able to shoot the ball, so it's just about continuing to work on your shot and shoot the ball. That's the main thing. Got to get those shots up.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Work
  • Just

• My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.

  

  James Burrows
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Father

• There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Take all the time you need It's a lovely night If you decide to come You're gonna do it right.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • Night

• Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Words
  • Language
  • Painting

• You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

  

  Kurt Busch

• I guess I'm a born ham.

  

  Marta Kristen