Paula Malcomson Quotes

If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.

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• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• 'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • War
  • Boy
  • Fire

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Bull
  • Rider

• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Child

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Religion

• Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Real
  • Religious
  • Human

• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
  • American
  • Parents

• You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Know

• I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Just

• TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Yourself
  • Healing
  • Moving On

• I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Wolf

• I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Great
  • Men
  • Revolution

• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Trying
  • Become
  • Harm

• No one realizes how hard parenthood is. I am not saying going into the office is easy. It's not. But parenthood, as fun as it is, is not for the fainthearted.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Fun
  • Parenthood
  • Fainthearted

• I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Everyone
  • Belong

• If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.

  

  Paula Malcomson
  • Job