Alma (Alma-Sofia Miettinen) Quotes

I think I’m super fucking Finnish. I’m so Finnish, so European, so Nordic. There’s always a part of me where I’m like … America—I don’t know how to be here. But I really try.

Alma

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• My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Career
  • Childhood
  • River

• Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Always
  • Go

• When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Girl
  • Singing
  • Weird

• You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Done
  • Judge

• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Long
  • Insane
  • Sanity

• I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Eye

• I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Love
  • Job
  • Best

• I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • See
  • Silly

• I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Ending

• I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Like

• I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Game
  • Travel
  • Blind

• Ravi Teja helps the co-artistes, and he is a very kind person.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Very

• We will stand by the Paris climate deal.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Paris
  • Will
  • Stand

• Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Selling

• I never discuss discussions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Never
  • Discuss
  • Discussions

• It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Money
  • Trust

• I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.

  

  Iman
  • School
  • Speak
  • Go

• My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Good
  • Real
  • She

• Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Poor

• One might as well try to charge through a wall.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wall
  • Try
  • Charge

• When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.

  

  Steven Ford
  • Family
  • Nation
  • Part

• I think I’m super fucking Finnish. I’m so Finnish, so European, so Nordic. There’s always a part of me where I’m like … America—I don’t know how to be here. But I really try.

  

  Alma
  • Try
  • Part
  • Finnish