Wellington Mara Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
-
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
-
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
-
The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
-
Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
-
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
-
Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
-
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
-
There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
-
I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
-
I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
-
The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
-
I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
-
'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
-
As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
-
Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
-
I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
-
People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
-
Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
-
Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.
-
I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.
-
The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.
-
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.
-
Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
