Maksim Chmerkovskiy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
-
I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
-
I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
-
I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
-
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
-
When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
-
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
-
I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
-
I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
-
There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
-
Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
-
I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
-
I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
-
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
-
I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
-
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
-
The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
-
We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
-
The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it's the opposite.
-
Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.
-
Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
-
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
-
Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
-
I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.
