Ali Krieger Quotes

I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

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• You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • You
  • Look
  • Will

• Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

  

  Yael Stone
  • Country
  • History
  • Australia

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Explore

• I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Weird
  • Creative
  • Intelligence

• If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Alternative

• If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Unique
  • Innovation

• There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Religion
  • Color

• Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.

  

  Young Thug
  • People
  • Real
  • Light

• Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Personality
  • More
  • Cartoon

• I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • School
  • Learn
  • Drama

• Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Good
  • Country
  • Bad

• Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • War
  • Guy

• There's nothing wrong with being yourself.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Yourself
  • Being Yourself

• It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Home
  • Like
  • Joke

• The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Everyday

• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Feeling
  • Idea
  • Birth

• When 'Top Gun' came out, my sisters were like, 'Oh, my God, 'Top Gun!' Tom Cruise!' And I very confidently said, 'I'm going to marry him one day.' It wasn't like, 'How do I get to Tom Cruise?' It was just, 'I think I'm going to marry him. Why not? He'll like me. I'm fun.'

  

  Katie Holmes
  • God
  • Why
  • Fun

• There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Past
  • Temptation
  • Ornament

• When I got back from London, I started with a new voice teacher in the experimental wing, who trained me to have my own artistry as opposed to forcing a technique upon me.

  

  Lia Ices
  • Teacher

• I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Skinny
  • Guitars
  • Necks

• There’s no shooting with the law of probabilities, otherwise you should just be a filmmaker and just point the camera and trigger. That’s called making film. If you’re a photographer, it’s about waiting for those decisive and clear moments.

  

  Jonathan Mannion
  • Moments
  • Camera
  • Photographer

• I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

  

  Ali Krieger