Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes

I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.

Courtney Milan

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • You
  • Stability

• There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Emotions
  • Go
  • July

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Attention

• Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • Focus

• Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Body
  • Hollywood
  • Actress

• I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Background

• Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Ocean
  • Big

• In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationships

• Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Children
  • Write

• I would like the world to know that Yemeni women are strong, and if empowered, they can achieve. The world needs to look beyond stereotypes and dress code. In our hearts, we are just human beings who want to live a dignified life. Is that too much to ask for?

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • See
  • I See

• If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Different
  • Children
  • Power

• As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Hollywood
  • Most
  • Captain

• My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.

  

  Manika
  • Different
  • Important
  • Children

• The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • Mistake
  • Hero

• Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

  

  Jules Romains
  • Know
  • Healthy
  • Invalids

• The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Children
  • Research
  • Adults

• I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Play
  • Theater
  • University

• When you're surrounded by brilliant actors, and teachers who challenge you to go beyond what you thought you were capable of, that's got to be good for you.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Good
  • Challenge

• Yes, you can get a man to do just about anything, and you know it. So, what are you going to attract him into doing? Buying you a nice house? Giving you the space to guide your own life? Or, offering his deepest gifts to you and all beings while opening his heart to God? Are you a selfish witch, a self-sufficient witch, or a witch for the sake of drawing your man and all beings open as a gift for all?

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • God
  • Man

• I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Waiting
  • Better
  • Face