Maggie Williams Quotes

I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.

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• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Important
  • Religious

• I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual
  • Feel

• I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Politics
  • Generation

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Attention
  • Body
  • Count

• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Different
  • You
  • Kind

• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • Great
  • Everyday

• Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • She
  • Movie
  • Think

• I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Next
  • Still
  • Dreaming

• I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Colleagues

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grim

• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • She
  • Career
  • Style

• There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Good
  • Music
  • Small

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
  • Violence

• To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Fly
  • Nothing
  • Airplane

• When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • City
  • College
  • Day

• If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Night
  • Wise
  • Silence

• The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

  

  Brion James

• I feel a loyalty to my favorite artists, and to have my fans feel that, for me, is a special bond because I've been there for so long.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Long
  • Loyalty

• You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who maybe have never been in front of a movie theater.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • People
  • Good
  • Movie

• I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.

  

  Maggie Williams
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  • Politics