Maria Conchita Alonso Quotes
I left Venezuela looking for something bigger. I wanted to be an international star.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
-
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
-
Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
-
It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
-
Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
-
It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
-
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
-
I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
-
If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
-
I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
-
Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
-
Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
-
Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
-
My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
-
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
-
For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
-
If you're offended, it's your problem.
-
The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
-
Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
-
In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
-
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
-
I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than... as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.
-
I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.
-
I left Venezuela looking for something bigger. I wanted to be an international star.
