Malin Akerman Quotes

I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.

Malin Akerman

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• I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Positive
  • Sex
  • Islam

• I have a secret love of jazz.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Love
  • Secret
  • Jazz

• I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Human
  • Logic
  • Hopeless

• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Friends
  • History

• To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Done
  • Effort

• I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Yourself
  • Win
  • Tough

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Friends
  • Rather
  • Million

• When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Think
  • Look

• I don't have business with any politicians.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Politicians
  • Any

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • History
  • Me
  • Big

• When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Interesting
  • Reading
  • Language

• 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Being
  • Outsiders
  • Vine

• Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Always
  • Will

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Business
  • Soul
  • Talent

• 'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • She
  • Fun
  • Honesty

• As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves.

  

  John McWhorter
  • People
  • Black
  • Expectation

• Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Conscience
  • Neighbors
  • Pickup

• You know what happens to sex in marriage? Instead of inviting desire, you monitor it. Especially men: You let her sleep late, you take the kids to the park, and all that time you're thinking, "Tonight I'll get some." That doesn't work.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Men
  • Kids
  • Desire

• I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Sleep
  • Films
  • Horror