Marianne Jean-Baptiste Quotes

I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 26, 1967

Topics

ChildrenMeThinkCareerGround

I mean, everyone walks into the gym on day one skinny or fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym skinny at 15 or 16, and I was that way, too.

Joe Manganiello

DayFatGymWayMeanEveryone

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

John Newton

GodMostGraduallyPartWorks

Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.

John Jay Hooker

MyselfGovernmentInternetMediaOut

The end of coal in Appalachia doesn't mean that America is running out of coal (there's plenty left in Wyoming). But it should end the fantasy that coal can be an engine of job creation - the big open pit mines in Wyoming employ a tiny fraction of the number of people in an underground mine in Appalachia.

Jeff Goodell

JobPeopleEndAmericaCreationOut

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.

Mia Wasikowska

EyesChallengeMeYouOpenTurn

I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

Amy Lee

SpiritualWayBandAshamedBeliefs

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

Lucinda Williams

LoveSpeakEasyI CanWriteFar

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

Clint Eastwood

InterestingYearsThingsWouldFound

If you are going out, and if you want women to pick you up, wear skinny jeans. Trust me: women will be looking at your legs and looking at your butt. When I wear skinny jeans, at least one woman will tell me, 'Nice butt.'

Nigel Barker

WomenTrustWomanMeLookingYou

Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.

Mariah Carey

FunLooking ForwardStartForward

I remember the day I first heard what Timbaland and Aaliyah did - that intersection of her pretty voice and his weird, resonant production. I remember where I was and what I was doing. It was a major situation. We're trying to continue that legacy.

Kelela

DayLegacyVoiceWeirdDoingTrying

The way I love monsters is a Mexican way of loving monsters, which is that I am not judgmental. The Anglo way of seeing things is that monsters are exceptional and bad, and people are good. But in my movies, creatures are taken for granted.

Guillermo del Toro

LoveGoodI AmPeopleSeeingBad

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