Mary-Louise Parker Quotes

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

Mary-Louise Parker

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• I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Feel

• 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'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Small
  • Try

• People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Too Much

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Parent
  • Coffee

• I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Play
  • Lucky
  • Guess

• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Best
  • Politics
  • Cards

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • You
  • Modern
  • Whatever

• I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Enemy
  • Child
  • Being

• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Experience
  • You
  • Place

• I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Soul
  • Think
  • Leave

• Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Think
  • Best

• I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Go

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Heart
  • May
  • House

• It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People
  • Time
  • Exercise

• Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Time
  • Work
  • Pretty

• The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Brain

• It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.

  

  Warren R. Austin
  • Time
  • True
  • Christian

• I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say.

  

  Per Petterson
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Small