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Michelle Trachtenberg Quotes

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.

Michelle Trachtenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: October 11, 1985

Topics

Love Valentine's Day Respect Day Mom

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.

John Lahr

Life Work Self Page Know Why

'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.

John Irving

Great Me Expectations Wish Important

For me, calling my mom really helps soothe me when I'm spiraling. Having someone to talk to, whether it's a therapist, your brother, or a friend, can be such a positive thing.

Torrey DeVitto

Positive Friend Brother Me Mom Talk

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

Robyn Hitchcock

Work Want More Soft Just After

I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.

Jon Favreau

Work Money Me Chef Hobby Luxury

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

Diane Lane

Children Me You Want Way Shoe

Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.

Deeyah Khan

Life Family Community Control Way

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Cormac McCarthy

Writing Know Why Bored Something

It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

Cory Booker

Time Long Long Time Want Stay Which

I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.

Chris Milk

World Born Changes Always Everything

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

Brian McKnight

Job Artist Come And Go Go Never Out

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

Ariel Dorfman

Life Identity Memory Game Body Play