Mary-Louise Parker Quotes

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

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• Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Funny

• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Reality
  • Opinion
  • Touch

• I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Man
  • Feel
  • Child

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• No one remembers who came in second.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Second
  • Came
  • Remembers

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• Turning 18 is a big deal.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Deal
  • Big
  • Big Deal

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Makes

• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Look
  • Talking
  • Tenderness

• I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That's fine.

  

  Jakob Dylan
  • Band

• Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

  

  John Bytheway
  • Control
  • Courage
  • Curiosity

• When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • May
  • Lost

• The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true.

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Life
  • True
  • Culture

• But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Live
  • Trying

• I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
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