Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Part 2, Ch. 5

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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• I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Management
  • Feet
  • Short

• We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the youth of today will flourish tomorrow.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Youth

• There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Young
  • Books
  • Laugh

• Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Look
  • Questions
  • Tough

• 'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Funny
  • Personality

• If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Work
  • Game

• Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Me
  • Values
  • Priority

• When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Training
  • Opponents
  • Cater

• I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these records out the back of my car. Girl, I'm ready to sell one the real way now.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Real
  • Girl

• I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and also my career, because it's a lot. I don't want someone who's like... 'Oh, you don't have time for me'. Like, I want somebody who's sure of himself and gonna be like, 'Okay, you go do your thing, and when you come back, we're good.'

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true - his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Real
  • Power
  • True

• What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Money
  • Better
  • Understand

• These days, I try to eat for my blood type when I'm not eating for the fat kid inside me.

  

  Usher
  • Me
  • Blood
  • Kid

• I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Judge

• Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Why
  • Health

• People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Problem
  • Benefits
  • Democracies

• Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

  

  William Blake
  • Struggle
  • Bait
  • Snare

• Winning in Berlinale, in Hong Kong, and then to get such an amazing response, reviews, and now to be India's official entry for Oscars... My mother is right up there and keeping a check on me. Her blessings are always going to be with me, I know.

  

  Rajkummar Rao
  • Amazing
  • Winning
  • Response

• My father was a very difficult man.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Father
  • Man
  • Difficult

• I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.

  

  Arthur Tress
  • Record
  • Photographer
  • Concealed

• Part 2, Ch. 5

  

  Lucy Maud Montgomery