Liv Ullmann Quotes

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

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• It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Vanity

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Cricket

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Movies

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Laughter

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Trying

• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Power
  • Need
  • Slavery

• For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Family
  • Jewish
  • Identify

• I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Art
  • Feel
  • Body

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • World
  • Great
  • Man

• I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Think
  • Questions

• All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Live
  • Friends
  • House

• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Most
  • Disaster
  • Significant

• 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

• It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

  

  Dale Ahlquist

• I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Done
  • Together
  • Mother

• How can I tell them that I love them if I'm no longer there?

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Tell

• Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Film
  • Hollywood
  • Writers

• I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

  

  Liv Ullmann
  • People
  • Work