Roma Downey Quotes

I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.

Roma Downey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 6, 1960

Topics

SmileTimeWorldThinkScheduleUp

In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.

Jim Doyle

GreatDayResearchPotentialSeize

I've obviously always been aware of actor-oriented films, being an actor. Altman and Cassavetes were really strong. And then I realized their structures were quite fascinating, too.

John Cameron Mitchell

StrongActorAlwaysAwareBeen

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

ArtLookingBetterStopModernIdea

I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.

John Kessel

GoodRegretStoryThinkAwardYou

A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

John Lanchester

LifeTimePeopleContactModernUs

There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.

Michael Fassbender

StressWorldInformationManifest

It's kind of a weird process being pitched by the company you're already with.

Stephen Curry

ProcessWeirdYouKindCompany

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Tommy Rettig

DogFriendBestManBest Friend

I had acquired the skills to sail a ship; I didn't acquire the knowledge.

Tom Holland

KnowledgeSailShipSkillsAcquire

Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

Marvin Sapp

MotivationalAloneWifeBeing Alone

I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.

Michael Winter

WritingWinLookingStoryYouBad

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

Lorna Luft

MotherMeLovedNeverSheOne Thing

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