Piper Laurie Quotes

I was so enchanted with the open possibilities and the power of being able to choose my part. Who was the child now? I decided I’d be a Japanese businessman because it would be less predictable. Even when I was alone, I was so filled with excitement and laughter at the thought of my task. This was joyful children’s play!

Piper Laurie

• Children
• Power
• Alone
• Laughter
• Japanese

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• That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Ball
  • Everybody

• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Software

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Today
  • Health
  • Problem

• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
  • Grateful

• The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • World
  • Power
  • Forgiveness

• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Fear
  • Ideas

• Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Matter

• Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • India
  • Some
  • Nationalism

• I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Feel

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Race
  • Will
  • Generosity

• Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.

  

  MaryJanice Davidson
  • Great
  • Hate
  • Band

• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • American
  • Political

• It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Opinion
  • Impossible
  • Theory

• I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place.

  

  Lawrence Weschler
  • Up
  • Art

• Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

  

  Judith Guest
  • Power
  • Lives
  • Run

• I was so enchanted with the open possibilities and the power of being able to choose my part. Who was the child now? I decided I’d be a Japanese businessman because it would be less predictable. Even when I was alone, I was so filled with excitement and laughter at the thought of my task. This was joyful children’s play!

  

  Piper Laurie
  • Children
  • Power
  • Alone