Maude Adams Quotes

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

Maude Adams

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• I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • Me
  • Never
  • Model

• I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kind

• CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Texas
  • Court
  • Exhausted

• What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Great
  • You
  • Explore

• In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Suffering
  • Texas
  • Hollywood

• People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Young
  • Opportunities

• It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feeling
  • Special
  • Ride

• So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Good
  • Decision
  • Thought

• I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Trust

• I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Problem
  • Problems
  • Aging

• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

  

  Ovid
  • Water
  • Body
  • How

• I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Name

• I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • You
  • Open
  • Mouth

• Intret amicitiae nomine tectus amor.

  

  Ovid

• I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.

  

  Sam Walter Foss

• O pastoral heart of England! like a psalmOf green days telling with a quiet beat.

  

  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Heart
  • Green

• Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

  

  Alfred Billings Street
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Charity

• The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today.

  

  Elliot Richardson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Today

• The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Men
  • Done
  • Movie

• I believe the world economy will crash when Russia or China moves to a gold-backed currency. They know that when this thing blows, the old law returns: he with most gold makes the rules.

  

  Max Keiser
  • World
  • Believe
  • Law

• There's not enough good things in the world.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • World
  • Good
  • Things

• Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

  

  Maude Adams