Polly Walker Quotes

I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in the north, in the country about an hour outside of Milan, for quite a few years. I speak fluent Italian.

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• Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Great
  • Art
  • Traditions

• I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Money
  • Government
  • Project

• We care about margins.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Care
  • About
  • Margins

• History is not hatred.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Hatred

• Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Country
  • Maybe
  • Month

• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
  • You
  • Heard
  • Both

• The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Choose

• It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Life
  • Country
  • Death

• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Time
  • Space
  • Present

• To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Being

• The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Experience
  • You
  • Impossible

• If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Brother

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Thought

• The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Dark

• If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Secrets

• I don't like to talk about myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Talk

• It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • New

• In Norway, everyone knows everyone, and everyone is very supportive of each other. If there is anyone new, or a new song is coming out, everyone will probably know about it.

  

  Astrid S
  • Song

• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Country
  • Bad

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow
  • Work

• I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in the north, in the country about an hour outside of Milan, for quite a few years. I speak fluent Italian.

  

  Polly Walker
  • Country
  • Son
  • Italian