Carla Gugino Quotes

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

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• I had no expectations of white people at all.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Expectations
  • White

• With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Life
  • Men
  • Career

• With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Children
  • Myself

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pretty
  • City
  • Gorgeous

• I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Different
  • Song
  • Better

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Up
  • Friends
  • True

• My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Story

• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Science
  • Problems

• I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Couple
  • Baby
  • Doing

• I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • United States
  • Greatest

• I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Day
  • Son

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Together
  • Strength
  • Weakness

• I haven't met a horse I didn't love. I love caring for them, cleaning them. I love doing my own tack and giving them treats.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Giving
  • Horse
  • Caring

• A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this?

  

  Freddie Wong
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

  

  Allen West
  • Immigration

• When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Trying
  • Greatness

• I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Trees

• I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Successful