Tia Carrere (Althea Rae Janairo) Quotes

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

Tia Carrere

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• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • You
  • Church
  • Act

• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Attention

• It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Act
  • Authority
  • Vote

• As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • New
  • Act

• A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Man
  • Never
  • Act

• I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Acting

• Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Attention

• If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Way
  • Attention
  • Powerful

• Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Trying
  • Understand
  • Act

• Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Me
  • Attention

• To love is to act.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Act

• A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Up
  • Great
  • Job

• Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Attention

• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Attention

• Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Attention
  • Moments
  • Gratitude

• Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Attention
  • Unique
  • Depression

• Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Life
  • Important
  • Movie

• I really loved making my mom laugh, and I knew that she thought that I was funny. It was really valuable, in my home growing up, to be able to have a chat and participate in a conversation and be funny. Whatever I could do to make my mom laugh could either get me out of trouble or just get me more attention or get me respect in the house.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Reason
  • Garden

• Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • People
  • Different
  • Political

• If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • May
  • Simple

• I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

  

  Tia Carrere
  • Attention
  • Act
  • Admiration