Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
-
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
-
Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
-
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
-
People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
-
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.
-
I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
-
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
-
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
-
I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
-
When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
-
Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
-
It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
-
It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
-
Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
-
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
-
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
-
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
-
In the shorter term, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina will have a palpable effect on the national economy.
-
I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.
-
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
-
I fell in love with '50s hot-rod, pinup-girl culture.
-
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
-
Time flies whether you are having fun or not.
