Natalia Makarova Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
-
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
-
Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
-
I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
-
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
-
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
-
By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
-
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.
-
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
-
I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
-
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
-
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
-
After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
-
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
-
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
-
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
-
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
-
I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
-
The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
-
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
-
I often wonder, with my hand on my heart, if 'The Dying Hours' was made into the biggest movie franchise in history, would I pick up my pen again? Wouldn't I be happier spending the rest of my life travelling around with my wife?
-
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
-
I don't want to do transformations on people for the sake of a visual. I want to do it because it makes sense.
-
It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
