Marie Helvin Quotes

I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that.

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• Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Public

• I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Stubborn

• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
  • Perceived

• Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Music
  • Know
  • Jazz

• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Inspire

• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Energy
  • Morning
  • Practice

• I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Father
  • Wrong

• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Free
  • Motion
  • Friction

• Winning, you can overlook so many things.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Winning
  • Things

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Want

• A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Future

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • World
  • Remember
  • Thought

• I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

  

  Prince Royce
  • English

• Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Actor

• I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.

  

  Jens Lekman

• When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• When you're not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you're only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you.

  

  Bobby Keys
  • Up
  • Holiday

• I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Positive