Lois McMaster Quotes

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

Lois McMaster

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• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Opportunity
  • Service
  • Acting

• When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Like
  • Stage

• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Everything

• But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.

  

  Ovid
  • Chaos

• Resident mockery give us an hour for magic

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Magic

• 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Perseverance

• If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Long

• I would really like to take on something that really surprises people and shows that I want to be taken seriously as an actress. Also, creatively speaking, that sounds really fun.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • People
  • Fun
  • Taken

• I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • People

• It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

  

  James Patterson
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I want to try to help shift perceptions people may have of me as an actor.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!

  

  Jessica Biel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Remember

• When the technique doesn't arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Passion

• I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Good
  • School
  • Girl

• One of the weird things about modern physics is that we do find there are apparently these other dimensions that we don't directly experience that explain some aspects of the overall geometry and reality of our universe.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Universe

• Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Beautiful
  • Pain
  • Beauty

• We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Up
  • Violence

• The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

  

  Charles Tupper
  • Law
  • Decision

• The truest friends are usually the ones telling you what you don't want to hear.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Friends
  • Hear
  • Telling

• Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Pain
  • Universe
  • Joy