Mo Collins (Maureen Ann Collins) Quotes

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.

Mo Collins

• People
• Freedom
• Myself
• Escape
• Absolutely

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• We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Process
  • Search

• The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hearts
  • Big
  • July

• Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Business
  • Poverty

• We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Cancer
  • Something
  • Almost

• In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Play
  • Calm

• The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Friends
  • Interesting
  • Small

• You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

  

  Jack London
  • Inspiration
  • Club

• I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Life
  • Story
  • Talent

• The MEChA slogan is 'Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,' which translates, 'For the race, everything. Outside of the race, nothing.' The MEChA slogan seems a conscious echo of the Fascist slogan of Mussolini: 'Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.'

  

  Pat Buchanan

• Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're also a good person, your name will be remembered for a long time.

  

  Alex Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman at some point in their life.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Live
  • Thankful

• My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• I don't think in a linear form.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya

• I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.

  

  David Farr

• I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

  

  Pauline Hanson
  • Life

• People in America think of it as a sad and downtrodden place, and I guess it could be, but it's not because that's not who Cubans are. In Cuba, you get a good story every day you go out walking. People are so funny.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • People
  • Good
  • America

• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

  

  Plutarch
  • Shoes

• Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

  

  Kurt Masur
  • People
  • Good

• As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.

  

  Brad Warner
  • People
  • Reality
  • Enlightenment

• There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.

  

  George F. Kennan
  • World
  • May
  • American

• I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.

  

  Mo Collins
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Myself