Mia Maestro Quotes

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

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• I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Down
  • Phone
  • Mechanic

• Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • People
  • Real
  • School

• Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • School
  • Me
  • Sleep

• Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Effort
  • Explain
  • Theology

• No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Pretty
  • Growing
  • Matter

• People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Too Much

• Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Clouds
  • Heartbeat
  • Raindrops

• The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Career
  • Inspiration
  • Sound

• Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Wise

• I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.

  

  William Gibson
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Goal
  • Ambition
  • Reach

• If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

  

  Mia Maestro
  • Miserable
  • Strict