Maya Hawke Quotes

Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else.

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• Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Rich
  • Office
  • Profit

• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dream

• I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Try
  • Grandparents

• I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Movie

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Going
  • Alien
  • Hospital

• This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Help
  • Realize

• Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Morality
  • Random

• My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Me
  • Rest

• This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Speak
  • Bed

• I acted my heart out.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Heart
  • Out
  • Acted

• I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Mood

• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Solitude
  • Destroy

• Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.

  

  Dana Boente
  • People
  • Real
  • Serious

• Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Live
  • Kids

• Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

  

  Jackson Browne

• Before healing others, heal yourself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Yourself
  • Healing

• It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.

  

  Joyce DiDonato
  • Voice
  • Weapon
  • Recording

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• So there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it and aint't agoing to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

  

  Mark Twain
  • She
  • Book
  • Light

• Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else.

  

  Maya Hawke