Miranda Cosgrove (Miranda Taylor Cosgrove) Quotes

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Think
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  • Dance

• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Talk
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• But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

  

  Oliver Stone
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• When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

  

  Adam Arkin
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  • Chance
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• I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • World
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• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• As the Holy Koran tells us: 'Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.' That is what I will try to do today - to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Truth
  • Today

• I'll tell ya, in New York City, where I've lived far too long, 'fuck' isn't even a word, it's a comma.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Long
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• You don't want a character who sits on an even playing field the whole time.

  

  James Norton
  • Time
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• It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Single
  • Personality

• They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

  

  Mark Goddard

• I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Thinking

• Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
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• I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

  

  Paul Theroux
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• Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

  

  Kristan Higgins
  • Writing
  • Connection

• There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Opportunity
  • Wish

• Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!' But in this exclamation I would have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

  

  John Adams
  • World
  • Reading

• Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Words
  • Everyday

• True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Trying

• In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context , is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Different
  • Art
  • Taken

• The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
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  • Reading
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