Emilia Wickstead Quotes

My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, 'someone who had wonderful style.' He was half Samoan-German, half New Zealander, and their first date was to a Fleetwood Mac concert, which I love the thought of.

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• I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Player
  • Hard Work
  • Level

• Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • High
  • Today
  • Values

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Succeed

• I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Life
  • Wish

• There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Parent
  • Coffee

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • Work
  • Water
  • Transportation

• I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Success
  • Team

• I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

  

  Kate Moss
  • World
  • Fun
  • Best

• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Become
  • Atheist

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Night

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Help
  • Community

• I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Time
  • Think
  • Funny

• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing.

  

  Pete Sessions
  • Job
  • Marketing

• I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

  

  Lori Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.

  

  James Meade Kutless
  • Children
  • War
  • Army

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

  

  David Coverdale Whitesnake

• My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, 'someone who had wonderful style.' He was half Samoan-German, half New Zealander, and their first date was to a Fleetwood Mac concert, which I love the thought of.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Style