Mary-Louise Parker Quotes

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

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• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • True
  • Words
  • Moral

• The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Israel

• We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Authority

• We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Time
  • Just
  • Most

• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Take

• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Friend
  • Boy
  • Thought

• I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • World
  • Important
  • Mother

• We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • May
  • Free
  • Renaissance

• I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • Attention

• Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Animal

• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Character

• How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • World
  • Live
  • Moving

• We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Character
  • Want
  • Too Much

• As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • High
  • Think

• My job means I work late.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Work
  • Job
  • Late

• To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Smart

• Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • You
  • Yourself

• If he votes against, that's the only principled position. If he abstains, it's a cop-out; if he votes for, it's a sell-out.

  

  Harriet Harman

• That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.

  

  Christo
  • Believe
  • Forever

• When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Money

• I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Matter
  • Win
  • Losing

• We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

  

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel
  • Power
  • True
  • Peace

• I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.

  

  Lori Wilde
  • Why

• I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker