Marian Seldes Quotes
I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.Marian Seldes
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As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.
Larry Drake -
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
J. M. Coetzee -
I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
Nancy Meyers -
The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
Fidel Castro -
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
Barry Commoner -
Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.
Ian St. John
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor -
The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
Randy Couture -
I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
Parker Posey -
I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu -
Know, dear little one! our FatherWill no gentle deed disdain:Love on the cold earth beginningLives divine in Heaven again,While the angel hearts that beat thereStill all tender thoughts retain.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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Chat with Jerry Cantrell at ESPN.com (November 29, 2011).
Jerry Cantrell -
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
Aldo Leopold -
'I’ll survive,' Floyd said. 'I’m a private detective. If I don’t get clouted on the head at least once a week, I’m not doing my job properly.'
Alastair Reynolds -
When I was quite young, as far back as I remember, I drew, but the gift is nothing without the will to make it worth while. The artist must have the patience of water that eats away the rock drop by drop.
Auguste Rodin -
I just go out and play my best tennis.
Angelique Kerber -
We live in a big world. We are citizens of the world, and we make movies for everybody around the world. I think it's very important to understand what people's life experiences, good and bad, are.
Donna Langley
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Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair of chainsaw operator's earmuffs.
Anthony Doerr -
Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.
Marlo Thomas -
I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.
Eric Gamalinda -
My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.
Debbie Reynolds -
I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
Marian Seldes