Amy Irving Quotes

I have a passion to do theater.

Amy Irving

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• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Language
  • Thoughts

• Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Choose

• There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Think
  • Culture

• The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • American
  • Authority

• Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Good
  • School
  • Passion

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Doing
  • Creative
  • Process

• I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Done
  • Change

• We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Emotional
  • Acting
  • Inspired

• That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Challenge
  • Without
  • Actress

• I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Mood

• Pain is never permanent.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Pain
  • Never
  • Permanent

• E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Conversation
  • Now
  • Phone

• I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Democracy
  • Spanish
  • Recovery

• I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

  

  John Buchan
  • Life
  • Beginning

• "You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry."

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Passion

• If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Hate
  • Passion
  • Murder

• I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Money
  • Nice

• Luckily, I have a fast metabolism.

  

  Lucky Blue Smith

• I have a passion to do theater.

  

  Amy Irving
  • Passion