Maura Tierney Quotes

I love Martin Amis.

Maura Tierney

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• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Doing the right thing has power.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Power
  • The Right Thing

• I have a smile 24/7.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Smile

• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Afraid

• I belong nowhere and to no one.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Belong
  • Nowhere

• Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Father
  • Film
  • Youth

• The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Language

• Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.

  

  K. A. Paul
  • Right
  • Call
  • Muslims

• I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I am quite a private person.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Person
  • Private

• I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Acting
  • Camera

• When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Politics

• I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Game

• I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Him

• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Angry
  • Danger

• To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • You
  • Something
  • Unknown

• I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Thought
  • See
  • Distance

• He stretched his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. 'I know myself,' he cried, 'but that is all - '

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Sky

• If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Evil

• When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.

  

  Shekhar Kapur
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Harmony

• I was given the job of milking the cows, finally, and it got me up earlier than anybody. But it was kind of nice, pulling at those cows' tits (pg. 172).

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Up
  • Job
  • Nice

• I love Martin Amis.

  

  Maura Tierney