Mandy Moore Quotes

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

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• I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Imagination

• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Law

• Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
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  • House

• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
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  • Know
  • Mom

• I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Want
  • Sacrifice
  • Everything

• I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Want
  • Continue
  • Supporting

• I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Want
  • Food
  • Junk Food

• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Art
  • Movie

• I want every Grammy.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Every
  • Grammy

• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Existence

• Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Want
  • Always
  • Hunger

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Dream

• Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Time
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  • Political

• To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

  

  Karl Malone
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• The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Ideas

• Every idea has its time.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Every

• My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

  

  Sonny Liston
  • Hard
  • Chicago
  • New York

• If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Power
  • Right
  • Innocent

• Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

  

  Joichi Ito
  • Power
  • Democracy

• I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
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• I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

  

  Mandy Moore
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  • Act