Marie Brennan Quotes

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

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• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Bored
  • Awards

• It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Voice
  • Credit

• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • Difficult
  • Lord

• The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Like
  • Awesome
  • Brilliant

• Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

  

  Patch Adams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Nature

• It's always good to be around nice-looking people.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Good
  • Nice

• I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

  

  Mae West
  • Believe
  • Better
  • I Believe

• I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Decision
  • Clear

• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Job

• What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Good
  • Important
  • Happiness

• Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Doctor

• I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Up
  • Something
  • Watch

• Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • True
  • Yourself

• One of the things that's making ArcGIS come alive is apps. Apps are opening up the ArcGIS platform, making it available to everybody in your organization as well as to the public.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Organization
  • Platform

• By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Interviews

• My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Religious

• I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Humans
  • Company
  • Animals

• Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.

  

  Quinn Cummings
  • Time
  • Good
  • Children

• Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Black
  • Proud
  • Language

• I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

  

  Marie Brennan