Mia Farrow Quotes

Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.

Mia Farrow

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• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Home
  • Day
  • End

• I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • World
  • War
  • Poetry

• For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Bored

• This much have I learned: A man’s life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Life

• This is random, but I thought I was going to have the biggest Backstreet Boys fansite. I'm not even gonna lie: I thought I was gonna marry one of the Backstreet Boys, and I was gonna be his Yoko Ono.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Random

• I don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Real

• You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

  

  Dorothy Dix

• As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

  

  Jim Evans
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Baseball

• I love color and I love to dress like a woman.

  

  Lisa Guerrero
  • Color

• I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

  

  Anne McCaffrey

• When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• Sugar and chocolate, anything that boosts your serotonin levels, is something people, I think, crave.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • People
  • Chocolate

• I'm up all night, and then next thing you know, it's the morning, and I'll sleep, like, three hours. I'm a night owl. I'm usually in the studio at night working, and then I get home, I'm on my phone looking at Instagram pictures and buying stuff.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Up
  • Home
  • Night

• Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.

  

  M. King Hubbert
  • Culture
  • Growth
  • Two

• I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in love with sentences that you then have to cut. I actually find that really difficult to do; there's something so demoralizing about looking at a pile of not very great sentences. As I ease into writing every morning, I tweak a sentence and then tweak a paragraph.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Morning
  • Difficult
  • Cutting

• There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Color

• Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Girl

• Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Character
  • Play
  • Thoughts

• Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.

  

  Mia Farrow
  • Feelings
  • Enemy
  • Available