Maria Cornejo Quotes

Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!

Maria Cornejo

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Short

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Kind
  • Sucker

• I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Experience
  • Feet
  • Lamp

• I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Important
  • Career
  • Fans

• I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Want
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

  

  Samm Levine
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Happy
  • Media
  • Social Media

• As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Books
  • Author

• I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Giving
  • Point
  • Crush

• I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Women
  • Girl

• The fossil fuel industry commands outsize sway over U.S. politics, markets, and democracy. I knew these companies were formidable, but when I served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, I got a close up view of how the industry disregards government safeguards.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Government
  • Democracy

• When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • Day

• Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Life
  • May
  • Talk

• The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or the artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Opinion
  • Judge

• He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Age

• I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Children
  • Home
  • Band

• I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Like
  • Never
  • Cold

• It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Experience
  • Risk
  • Failure

• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Long
  • Kids

• Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!

  

  Maria Cornejo