Emily VanCamp Quotes

I'd love to do some theater.

Emily VanCamp

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• If you're with someone, it's because you're moving in the same direction, and you both are looking for the same thing. Both of you have to share the same concept of what a relationship means.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Relationship
  • Moving

• I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Style
  • Intimidating
  • Demanding

• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Think
  • Painting

• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Just

• The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Pain

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Reading
  • Serious
  • Write

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Worry
  • Adapt
  • Global Warming

• When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Business
  • New York

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Blue

• It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Different
  • Age

• Men get laid, but women get screwed.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Screwed

• If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Happy
  • Change
  • Myself

• It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • You
  • Feel
  • Easy

• For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Period
  • Robert
  • SF

• If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Huge

• Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Stop
  • Very
  • Become

• I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

  

  C. S. Lewis

• I probably have a hidden issue, because before 'La Misma Luna' in 2007, I hated working with kids. But after that, I learned so much about how to handle a kid that I liked it. And then came 'Instructions Not Included,' and it was like, 'OK, now I think I've got it.' Life just kept bringing me projects with kids.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • Because
  • Before
  • About

• I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater school was kind of affiliated with an agency, and so I went on one audition for whatever that movie was, 'My Stepmother is an Alien' or whatever it was, and 'Roseanne' was my second audition.

  

  Lecy Goranson
  • School
  • Movie
  • Alien

• I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

  

  Amy Adams
  • People
  • Great
  • Funny

• Growing up in a very poor orphanage in Ukraine, there wasn't much food.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Food

• I'd love to do some theater.

  

  Emily VanCamp