Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes

I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support kids to really get out there and work hard in their communities. But I also think that we need poets in our country to inspire.

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• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Shame
  • Come And Go

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Action

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Purpose

• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • End
  • Street

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Underdog

• I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Right
  • Worked
  • Starbucks

• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  

  Val Guest
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Bad

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Listen

• The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Success
  • Always
  • Policy

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Friendship
  • Mask

• I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Believe
  • American

• The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • True
  • New York

• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Blood

• When issues emerge that might harm a campaign, like the Clinton e-mails, you have to get all the facts out right away, but not before you have all the facts.

  

  Bob Beckel

• When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I'm not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day's work.

  

  Mark Waters
  • Work

• I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me.

  

  Charles Ponzi
  • Country
  • Cash

• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Things
  • Thought

• I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support kids to really get out there and work hard in their communities. But I also think that we need poets in our country to inspire.

  

  Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • Work
  • Country
  • Kids