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.

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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

• We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Why
  • Man

• 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
  • Hollywood
  • Texas

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

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Young
  • Opportunities

• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Dead
  • Forgotten
  • Audiences

• 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 earned my professional credibility a long time ago in a male-dominated world. I just hope that as a woman, I bring in an extra dimension to the job. I bring in the sensitivity of being a woman and a mother, and that means I pay more attention to women, children, and the social needs of society.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• The first thing I do when I get there like all of the players on tour is apply sunscreen. One of the few hazards of the job is the wear-and-tear our skin takes from the sun.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Player
  • Tears
  • Jobs

• God makes it clear that his image bearers must live in dynamic communion with one another, thereby discovering and celebrating the good gift of one's own gender and that of the other. With a cross-shaped lens, we behold the beauty of man for woman and woman for man. None of us has ever lost that original design. No matter how broken we have become, we have never lost the potential to be good gifts for others!

  

  Andrew Comiskey
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Communion

• One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • True

• What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Believe

• 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