Miriam Toews Quotes

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• You can stroke people with words.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Words
  • You

• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I lost my confidence.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Important
  • Power
  • Political

• I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.

  

  Ann Rutherford
  • Up
  • Sick

• I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

  

  James Carville
  • Party
  • Fighting

• It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

  

  Jacques Barzun

• Many women try to advance in their careers by having all the answers; by being the go-to person for information and advice; or by building expertise in a particular field. However, as they progress, gain broader responsibilities, and grow into leadership roles, they realize that their span of control is too vast to be able to know every answer.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Women
  • Control
  • Progress

• As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

  

  Elena Delle Donne
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.

  

  Andris Nelsons

• I can only speak for me... but in my life, I find that, in sobriety, I feel much more, and I have much more depth. I also feel - not to segue, but as being a parent of five kids, I can bring much more to my acting, and so I'm all about anything that gives you more feeling and more depth.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Feeling

• Say what you want about Maroon 5 not making music like the kind found on 'Songs About Jane,' the fact remains that they know how to write a really good pop song that highlights lead singer Adam Levine's falsetto.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• Arcade Fire always churns out music that makes me want to move.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Music
  • Fire

• Children ask questions much more than adults do, and you have to wonder if this is something we have that we lose.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Children
  • Wonder

• We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • World
  • Country
  • Energy

• One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• Sometimes family doesn't always consist of your relatives or by blood. Sometimes your best friends can feel more like family than your cousins. I think everybody kind of has that same feeling. When you go through an accident together, when you go through a traumatic event, sometimes that brings you closer together.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Kind

• A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Window
  • Through
  • Nose

• Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Hope
  • Doubt
  • Depression

• If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Joy
  • Window

• The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

  

  John Cheever
  • People
  • She
  • American

• There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Depression
  • Window
  • Mirrors