Monica Potter Quotes

I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?

Monica Potter

• Waiting
• Actors
• Changed
• Fit
• Moved
• Cleveland

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• There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Life
  • World
  • Gifts

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Law
  • Action
  • Fast

• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Nature

• I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Desert

• We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Prayer

• 'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Taken
  • Road

• Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Nature
  • Learning

• There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Game
  • Stop
  • Passion

• The meaning of a question is the method of answering it: then what is the meaning of 'Do two men really mean the same by the word 'white'?' Tell me how you are searching, and I will tell you what you are searching for.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Men
  • Question

• The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

  

  Bjork
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Guy

• We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Up
  • World
  • Blow

• What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Work
  • Relationship

• Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

  

  David Korten
  • Money

• I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Up
  • Moments

• I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

  

  Lynn Barber

• Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

  

  Lou Gramm Foreigner
  • Beginning

• Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Society

• At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Want
  • Waiting
  • Actors

• In the year of chan yan..., Jupiter was in [the Zodiacal Division of] Zi, it rose in the morning and went under in the evening together with the Lunar Mansions Xunu, Xu and Wei. It was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish (chi) star appended (fu) to its side. This is called "an alliance" (tong meng).

  

  Gan De
  • Science
  • Morning
  • Alliances

• I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?

  

  Monica Potter
  • Waiting
  • Actors
  • Changed