Marya Mannes Quotes

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

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• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Connection

• The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Good
  • Different
  • High

• The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Most

• There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Night
  • Day
  • Challenge

• I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • Just

• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • People
  • Trust
  • Fight

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Space
  • End
  • Clean

• I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Body
  • Honor

• There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Story
  • Should
  • Often

• There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Religion
  • Color

• I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Movies

• The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Cooperation

• Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Past
  • Action

• The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Path

• When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Crazy
  • Star
  • Dance

• You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Risk

• My style has always been very free, easy, relaxed, and slightly androgynous.

  

  Erin Wasson
  • Relaxed
  • Androgynous

• We are one of the most tolerant societies in the world, and in order to stay tolerant, my party believes that we should stop being tolerant to the people who are intolerant to us.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their nightmare fancies are hopelessly out of date. A vast, air-conditioned, neon-lighted, glass-and-chromium broiler-house begins to take shape, in which geneticists select the best stocks to fertilise, and watch over the developing embryo to ensure that all possibilities of error and distortion are eliminated.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • House
  • Air
  • Genetics

• It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

  

  Marya Mannes