Margot Kidder Quotes

I was briefly bitter.

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• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

• I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Sick

• In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Politics
  • Build

• Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

  

  La Monte Young
  • People
  • You
  • Education

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Two
  • Test

• It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Men
  • Religious
  • Greatest

• I always work with 18 friends.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Always

• I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • God
  • Think

• It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Money
  • You
  • Player

• During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • School
  • Culture
  • Ambition

• Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Television
  • Industry
  • Sphere

• You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

  

  Foster Friess
  • You
  • Control
  • Circumstances

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Sea
  • River

• I'm not trying to make anyone forget the Babe; but only to remember Hank Aaron.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Trying
  • Remember

• 'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Reality

• On the performance end, I take a lot of advice from my sister.

  

  Jamie Lynn Spears
  • Advice
  • Sister

• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• The concept of greatness is changeable, in the realm of morality as well as in that of esthetics. And so philosophy starts by legislating greatness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Greatness

• As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I was briefly bitter.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Bitter