Quvenzhane Wallis Quotes

It's not good to assume what your kid wants. It's not good to push them in their own way. It's not good to make them do something you wanted to do but didn't have the chance to. You should listen to what your kids are saying, and let them live, and let them be themselves.

Quvenzhane Wallis

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• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Think
  • Food

• When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Great
  • Movies
  • Guilty

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Hurt
  • Feel
  • Humiliated

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • War
  • Doing

• There's definitely something transformative about clothes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Something
  • Clothes

• At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Space
  • Learn

• People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Effort
  • View

• I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Very
  • Involved

• Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Judge
  • Characters
  • Well

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Three
  • Five
  • Wives

• I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Hands

• Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feigned deaths to die.

  

  John Donne
  • World
  • Hope
  • Die

• Sometimes, you know, bad is good.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Sometimes

• Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Life
  • Time
  • Movie

• No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• It's not good to assume what your kid wants. It's not good to push them in their own way. It's not good to make them do something you wanted to do but didn't have the chance to. You should listen to what your kids are saying, and let them live, and let them be themselves.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Live
  • Kids