Talia Shire Quotes

Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.

Talia Shire

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
  • Choices
  • Healthy

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Angry
  • Birds
  • While

• I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Fall
  • Made
  • Jump

• I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Up
  • California
  • Diversity

• My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Weird
  • Songs
  • Stuff

• The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Men
  • Words
  • Inspired

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Self

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Important
  • Marriage
  • Expectation

• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Day
  • Revolution

• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Work
  • Excited
  • Ridley Scott

• I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Remember
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • God
  • Relationship

• My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Career
  • Careers

• Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Happy
  • Moments

• The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Tax

• I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

  

  E. Jean Carroll
  • Up
  • Long
  • Together

• Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.

  

  Talia Shire
  • Time
  • Long
  • Death