Eleanor Parker Quotes

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

Eleanor Parker

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• You cannot do only one thing.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • You
  • Only
  • One Thing

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • World
  • Work
  • Together

• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • America
  • Creative
  • Solitude

• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Broken
  • Nation
  • Divided

• Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Presence

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Book
  • Know
  • Famous

• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Positive
  • Emotional

• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Doubt
  • Without
  • Machinery

• I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Want
  • Friend
  • Best

• I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Home
  • Cutting

• Loosen your girdle and let er fly!

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Fly
  • Your
  • Loosen

• Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • New York
  • Busy

• Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • King

• There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.

  

  Vincent Price
  • People
  • Personality
  • Secret

• I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Today

• I saw a shady forest and therein a crowd of nightingales. The nightingales as to their breast were rough and hairy, and as to their feet some were like calves, some like panthers, and some like wolves, and they had beast's claws instead of toes.

  

  Max Ernst
  • Forest

• I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

  

  Eleanor Parker
  • Personality