Colleen Atwood Quotes

I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life.

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• I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Picture

• Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Space
  • Ideas
  • Own

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Wife
  • Safe
  • Germany

• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Love
  • Fun
  • House

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Being
  • Exciting
  • Advantages

• We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Work
  • Technology
  • Thanks

• The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Strategy

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • You
  • Rich
  • Chocolate

• I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Money
  • Business
  • Value

• If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Purpose
  • Look

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Great
  • Government
  • Values

• I've always wanted to be a singer.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Singer

• I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • School

• It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Up
  • Purpose

• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • You
  • Software

• If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Law
  • Smart
  • Judge

• I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Parents

• I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Life
  • Work
  • School