Mia Maestro Quotes

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

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• Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Effort

• The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Action
  • Revolution

• Progress in economics is said to take place through a cumulative process in which scholars build on the work of their predecessors. In an age when graduate syllabi contain few references to books and articles written as many as ten years ago, this is too infrequently the case.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Work
  • Age
  • Progress

• Walla Walla is where I make wine, with Eric Dunham. He and I partnered up on a small project for me. We make pretty good cabernet and syrah.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.

  

  Jameela Jamil

• I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Life
  • Shadow

• I want everyone to eat whatever makes them happy.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Happy

• One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.

  

  Bill Murray
  • People

• I don't really read Stephen King - I just can't read scary things because it stays with me too long - but I truly liked his memoir of the craft of writing.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • King

• Since I was as young as I can remember, my dolls became my babies. I still have my teddy bear from childhood that I named Mama Bear because, actually, I wanted to be the mama.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Remember
  • Childhood

• Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Book
  • Reading

• There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

  

  Piers Morgan
  • Different
  • War
  • Serious

• I'm fairly skeptical of movements, organizations, and institutions in general.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer

• I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

  

  Jaime Lerner
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

  

  Margaret Oliphant
  • Pain

• We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Believe
  • Economy

• I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Single
  • Ferrari
  • Mercedes

• Donald Trump tried to switch from looks to stamina. But this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Donald Trump
  • Pregnancy
  • Employers

• Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic and political life.

  

  Navi Pillay
  • Political
  • Poverty
  • Reflection

• I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches

• My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

  

  Mia Maestro
  • Pregnancy
  • Kidnapped
  • Exploding