Edwina Findley Quotes

I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for her nurturing and guiding my artistic talents at a young age, I don't think I'd be a professional actress and performer today.

Edwina Findley

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• My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Day

• The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Democracy
  • Road

• I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Earth
  • Me

• I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Experience
  • American
  • Black

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Art
  • Business
  • Design

• I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Boy

• I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Winning
  • Celebrity
  • Olympics

• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Everyone
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • History
  • Know

• Everybody has a story... and a scream.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • Story
  • Everybody
  • Scream

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Progress

• Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Always
  • Opportunities

• While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Need

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Age

• The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Gun
  • Times

• My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Perseverance

• Speaking personally, as a first-time female founder, I would not be where I am today without an incredible network of fellow founders who have shared their challenges, advice, and hacks with me.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Time
  • Today
  • Advice

• Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • People
  • Future
  • Today

• I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for her nurturing and guiding my artistic talents at a young age, I don't think I'd be a professional actress and performer today.

  

  Edwina Findley
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Age