Martha Quinn Quotes

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

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• I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Work
  • Job
  • Hard Work

• I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Political
  • Charity
  • Tax

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Easy

• I want to have a long career.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Career
  • Want

• Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Deep
  • Run
  • Resentment

• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Years
  • Been
  • Iceland

• It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

  

  Adam Grant
  • True
  • Moment
  • Leader

• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Always
  • Group
  • Fair

• My mom and I are very close.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Mom
  • Very
  • Close

• I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • People
  • Job
  • Team

• I think as more women are in positions of power, more people of color are in positions of power, the stories become more inclusive; the casts become more inclusive.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I say always follow your passion, no matter what, because even if it's not the same financial success, it'll lead you to the money that'll make you the happiest.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Money
  • Success
  • Passion

• There's a period where you feel very hinky and low about yourself, like, 'That was a lot of time, and there's nothing to show for it.' I've tried to tell myself that if you're going to be a filmmaker, you can't really talk like that about time, because you'll hate yourself or feel very worthless.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Period

• It was no more nor less than true. You do things by doing things, not by not doing them. No more crazy upsidedownness, he resolved. Good was better than bad. Good environments are better than bad environments.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • True

• I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

  

  Kurtwood Smith

• I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

  

  Martha Quinn
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