Martha Beck Quotes

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1962

Topics

LifeHappinessGetting OlderPain

When I'm not working, I don't mix with actors, really. I have about two or three friends from theater school, and we call each other and meet. But in the main, no. I'm more happy with musicians or horse riders or sailors.

Jeremy Irons

SchoolHappyMusiciansFriendsHorse

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

Robert MacNeil

PositivePastNegativeThinkThought

I want to race as long as I'm having fun, it's competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that's not happening anymore.

Jeff Gordon

FunHaving FunLongYouHealthy

Don't listen to some outside interpretation - do the scene as it makes sense to you and the other actor.

Stephen Henderson

YouActorListenOutsideSenseSome

I don't have a great face for camera.

Tracy Letts

GreatFaceCamera

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

Robin Williams

CharacterPeopleInterestingPerson

I like talent. I respect talent. I teach talent.

Roger Ailes

TellWhoEndorseRupert Murdoch

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

Lorraine Bracco

FunEndYouPersonPlaySometimes

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

Joshua Lederberg

LifeHopeScienceStylePeopleWill

Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives.

Jonathan Kozol

YearYouConsequencesGoNewWay

The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.

Douglas Coupland

LifeDieYouLivingGetYour

People underestimate hip-hop the way they have sometimes underestimated comic books.

Cheo Hodari Coker

PeopleSometimesHip-HopWayBooks

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