Pam Muñoz Ryan Quotes

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?

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• Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Balance

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Inspired
  • Ocean
  • Paris

• I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I'm not interested in celebrity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Celebrity
  • Not Interested

• Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • World
  • Young

• Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Worry

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Trying
  • War
  • Autumn

• The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Better

• Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Woman
  • Smart
  • Where

• Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Money
  • Pretty
  • Shoes

• People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • People
  • Singing
  • English

• Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?

  

  Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • Children
  • Faith
  • Memories