Lily Collins Quotes

I didn't want to land an audition because I was 'The daughter of...' I never wanted to give anyone the opportunity to say, 'You only got the role because of who you are.'

Lily Collins

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• I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Business
  • Giving

• It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.

  

  Abraham Benrubi
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Because

• When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Opportunity

• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Daughter
  • First
  • Old

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

• Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Opportunity
  • Single
  • Training

• I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Moment

• My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • She
  • Wife

• I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team's strength. But a rank turner might backfire.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I'm a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Game
  • Past
  • Opportunity

• The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Property
  • Mine

• I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doesn't know that I'm watching or when I come into the room and I look over and he's just kissing her forehead or kissing her cheek. He loves her so much, and I love his love for her.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • For Her
  • I Love
  • Give

• I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

  

  Polly Berrien Berends
  • Baby

• If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Life
  • Art
  • Tender

• There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that people tend to get emotional about. After all, money involves, and always has involved, something closely akin to faith-which probably explains why in many past societies the money system has been in the hands of a priesthood, the subject of magical rites, and the ceremonial services of the tribe's medicine man.

  

  Wright Patman
  • People
  • Reason
  • Emotional

• For a composer of concert music, 40 is actually very young. But for a rock musician, 40 is almost past due, where you think of rock music as really part of more youth-oriented culture.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Past
  • Culture

• That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

  

  David Selby
  • Important
  • Done
  • Support

• I didn't want to land an audition because I was 'The daughter of...' I never wanted to give anyone the opportunity to say, 'You only got the role because of who you are.'

  

  Lily Collins
  • Opportunity
  • Daughter