Jane Powell Quotes

Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

Jane Powell

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• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Car

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Motivational
  • Fortune
  • Tribe

• Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Yourself
  • Changing
  • Analysis

• I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Character
  • Job
  • Myself

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Space

• I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Wish
  • Question
  • Tired

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Knowledge
  • Respect
  • Practice

• In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • World
  • Death
  • Transformation

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Down

• Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Old

• But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Take
  • Punishment

• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • American
  • Nature

• I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Easily
  • Embarrass

• I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter

• I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Lyrics

• For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Different
  • Long
  • Important

• With 'Cold Skin,' I believe we can create a lasting psycho-physiological horror film. It is one of the most atmospheric, terrifying, cinematic, and original stories of the human spirit.

  

  David Slade
  • Believe
  • Cold

• Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Strong
  • Silent
  • Victim