Armistead Maupin Quotes

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

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• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Day

• I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Focus
  • Same
  • Author

• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Remember

• America is another name for opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Name

• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Joy

• You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • High
  • Alone

• I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Enemy
  • Child
  • Being

• I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strength

• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Man
  • City

• Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Country
  • House

• I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Community
  • Independence
  • Big

• I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Die
  • Friend
  • Wife

• It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Work
  • Great
  • Film

• The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Always
  • Magic
  • Creation

• I am mentally strong.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Strong
  • Mentally

• I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• I've met some great people that deal with me in the press. I've also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Great

• Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • People
  • Food
  • Independent

• I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.

  

  John Schneider
  • Believe
  • Gentleman

• As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Long
  • Kill

• Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • Age