Margaret Oliphant Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
-
I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
-
I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
-
I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
-
I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
-
Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
-
My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
-
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
-
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
-
I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
-
I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
-
As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
-
I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.
-
It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.
-
Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.
-
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
-
Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
-
I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
-
I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
-
Step by step and the thing is done.
-
I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.
-
'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
-
I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.
-
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
