Max Minghella Quotes

I've always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the circumstances so uncontrolled.

Max Minghella

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• I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Women
  • She
  • Fun

• Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • History
  • Tradition
  • Congress

• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Possible
  • Prefer
  • Blondes

• I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Easy

• I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Up
  • War
  • Girl

• Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Time
  • She

• In back of the outward calm … a small terrified voice cries out: 'I need it. I have to have it or ...' The end of the sentence is lost in chaos. The need is so strong that an illusion is created that it must be fulfilled, or the very existence of the self is threatened.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Strong
  • Small
  • Lost

• Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Nature

• Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • God

• They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Stop
  • Trust

• We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you'd be in prison. So what is this country really standing for?

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Country
  • Done
  • Presidential

• Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Happy
  • Growth

• We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble.

  

  David Quammen
  • Single
  • Animal
  • Competition

• There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Real
  • Question

• Love should be all about giving and trusting.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Giving

• Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

  

  Jerry Brown
  • Political

• People might be surprised because I settled for an arranged marriage, but that's what's chosen for us.

  

  Karan Patel
  • People
  • Marriage

• In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There are 10 reasons why Japanese Internet is not taking off. I said none of them are right; it's just a time lag. And, of course, Japanese Internet took off.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Time
  • Different
  • Why

• A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

  

  Catherine Booth
  • God
  • Real
  • War

• The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Soul
  • Air
  • Model

• 1914...Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's...that the 'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Age
  • Dark

• The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

  

  Abdu'l-Bahá
  • Heart
  • Intellect
  • Servant

• I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Book
  • Picture
  • Bored

• I've always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the circumstances so uncontrolled.

  

  Max Minghella