Wendy C. Ortiz Quotes
My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
-
Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
-
You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
-
I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
-
My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
-
My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
-
You want to win the games, to win trophies.
-
I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
-
My first job, I worked at 'YM' and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.
-
I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
-
Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
-
It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
-
I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.
-
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
-
This world of 'Star Wars' is just so accepting and beautiful that the idea a droid and a human are trying to waddle their way into a relationship is something that's celebrated.
-
I have career ADD, he says. I have career dissatisfaction. Even as a young kid, I'd have that. I'd get really passionate about something and then I'd realize, 'I don't want to do that!
-
It's always an emotional blow when you lose any guy, let alone a guy like Le'Veon Bell.
-
I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to America when she was five with my grandmother and grandfather, and that was the family I knew. Everybody sang; everybody had songs all the time, and they loved music.
-
There's peer pressure of not being respected of having a certain amount of money, but if you know who you are, then you see that and look past it.
-
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
-
When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up in your head. I feel that unless you can document and be certain about what it is that you're writing about, the reader is going to lose faith in your own integrity.
-
There is good business doing good.
-
I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
-
My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.
