Margaret Mitchell Quotes

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Margaret Mitchell

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• I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Girl

• Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• Time is valuable; people are busy.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Busy

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Up
  • Real
  • Dream

• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • End
  • In The End

• The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

  

  Edie Falco
  • World
  • Long
  • Small

• Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

  

  Banksy
  • Important
  • Art
  • Same

• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Home
  • Song

• I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Fear
  • Snakes

• I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Myself
  • Always

• You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Seek
  • Satisfy
  • Objective

• My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Father
  • Right
  • Said

• First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Training

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Money
  • End

• The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Help
  • Career
  • Expect

• I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Give
  • Open
  • Washington

• I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Death

• Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

  

  John Pearson
  • Death

• He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • People
  • Death

• As long as I hold tightly to something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish control, power, and prestige. When I realize that God has a claim not merely on the few dollars I might choose to throw in an offering plate, not simply on 10 percent or even 50 percent, but on 100 percent of "my" money, it's revolutionary. If I'm God's money manager, I'm not God. Money isn't God. God is God. So God, money, and I are each put in our rightful place.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Power
  • Control
  • Prestige

• Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Death
  • Taxes
  • Childbirth