Rebecca Mader Quotes

When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.

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• You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Way
  • Growing
  • Fight

• First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Time
  • Real
  • Moments

• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Live
  • Family

• I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Me
  • Decisions

• I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Positive
  • Lead
  • Pregnancy

• The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Feel

• I should be concentrating on writing pages.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Writing
  • Should
  • Pages

• Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Kids
  • True

• …all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Trying

• That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Long
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Trying

• The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Space
  • Growth

• I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Long
  • Writing
  • True

• It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Up

• Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Beach
  • Independence
  • Rocky Island

• 'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

  

  Billy Gardell
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Moments

• God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Government
  • Keep
  • Promises

• I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • People
  • Movie
  • Desire

• When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.

  

  Rebecca Mader
  • Moments
  • Tears
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