Annie Potts Quotes

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

Annie Potts

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• Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Military
  • Service
  • Discipline

• Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Face
  • Everybody
  • Villain

• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Listen
  • News

• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • End
  • Treat

• Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • First
  • Possible
  • Speaking

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Drama
  • Act
  • Opening

• The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Why
  • Knowledge

• In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Time
  • Back
  • Passport

• Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • World
  • Law
  • Action

• I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Kids
  • Stress
  • Anxiety

• Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Education
  • Health
  • Growth

• A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Choice
  • Enemies

• Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Wall

• I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Up
  • Men
  • Book

• I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Want
  • Television

• Women should come forward to protect other woman, as only a woman can understand the problems of another one.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Problems

• The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Great
  • Done

• HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • Law
  • Identity

• I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Filmmaking

• Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Mind
  • Real
  • High

• There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

  

  Annie Potts