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.

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• I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • School
  • Remember
  • High

• 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
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Actor

• The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Truth
  • End
  • Tell

• I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Remember
  • Point
  • Meals

• 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
  • Change
  • Oil
  • Climate Change

• The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • May
  • Age
  • Science

• 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
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Credit

• To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • View
  • Too Much

• Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

  

  Yves Tanguy
  • Work
  • Community
  • Geography

• 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
  • Work
  • Important
  • Control

• I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• 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
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Friend

• 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
  • Good
  • Honesty
  • Treat

• 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
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Thoughts

• Chat with Jerry Cantrell at ESPN.com (November 29, 2011).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • November

• Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • True

• '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
  • Job

• 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
  • Remember
  • Water
  • Rock

• Naming something, putting it on record, in a lyric, feels like affirming people. Ideally, that's what politicians should want to do: to put laws or policies in place that speak to people's experiences, to make them feel heard.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Lyric

• Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • People

• I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Book

• I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.

  

  Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Needs

• My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Sick

• 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