Anna Pavlova Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
-
Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
-
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
-
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
-
I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
-
The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
-
It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
-
I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
-
Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
-
I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
-
I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
-
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
-
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
-
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
-
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
-
Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
-
I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
-
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
-
I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.
-
I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.
-
On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
-
As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.
-
I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.
-
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
