Diora Baird Quotes

I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.

Diora Baird

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• Done
• Hair
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• Painting
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• Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Military
  • Morality
  • African

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Days
  • April
  • Along

• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Nice
  • Win

• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving

• I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Perfect
  • Play
  • Person

• I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Good
  • Work
  • Strong

• I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

  

  Larry King
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Movies

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • World
  • American
  • Weird

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Different
  • Real
  • Feeling

• Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Star

• A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Marriage
  • Sad
  • Act

• I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Know
  • Me
  • Fact

• The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.

  

  James Hillman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Life
  • Energy

• My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

  

  Amy Sedaris

• I wasn't unpopular. I didn't have any trouble getting girls.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Getting
  • Unpopular

• Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • True
  • Goal
  • Key

• I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.

  

  Diora Baird
  • Life
  • School
  • Done