Virginia Madsen Quotes

I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.

Virginia Madsen

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• There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Risk
  • Unknown

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • World
  • Deep
  • Galaxy

• You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Good
  • Why
  • Creativity

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Character
  • Better

• Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • School
  • Fighting

• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Pink

• I'm a slow starter.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Slow
  • Starter

• A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Die
  • Person
  • Should

• Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • American
  • Always
  • Legacy

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Sometimes
  • Forever
  • Service

• I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.

  

  Mary J. Blige

• If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Music
  • Never
  • Behind

• I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Book

• 'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Time
  • Book
  • War

• I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Book

• I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Son