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Maryam D'Abo Quotes

The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it.

Maryam D'Abo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: english
Birth: December 27, 1960

Topics

Confidence Challenge Me Brain Done

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

Johan Lindeberg

Black Environment Always Jeans Up

In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.

John Eldredge

Lion Man Young Young Man Land Tribe

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

John Patrick Shanley

People Writing Think You True Write

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

John Irving

Love Process You Product More Must

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.

John Pomfret

Time New York City Late New Page

No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

Roger McGuinn

Words Parents Guitar Play Vocabulary

We all hate those stories that end with 'And that's the story.'

Matt Besser

Hate Story End Stories Those

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Jean Cocteau

Light Job Youth Rest Literature You

Every day, I want to learn something new; I want to move up.

Dinesh Paliwal

Day Learn Every Day New Want Up

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

Debby Boone

Home Best Happy Be Happy Singing

I really miss wearing costumes and makeup.

Brendon Urie

Makeup Miss Wearing Costumes Really

Animal welfare must be a priority, and we need to switch to less industrial production methods.

Pim Fortuyn

Animal Need Welfare Production Must