Martha Beck Quotes

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceExpectationsResultYou

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Jimmy Swaggart

MeAppreciateOutWhoAdulteryGoes

I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me.

Jessica Hecht

RomanticWomanMeWindThinkPlay

I feel very comfortable in my own skin. When someone makes jokes about me being heavy, it makes me mad. It's not true. I'm right where I should be.

Amy Schumer

MeFeelSomeoneMadSkinTrue

I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.

Steven Stucky

StartingHeadLittlePieceAround

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Louise Leakey

FatherAnimalChoicesSurvivalBad

Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.

Louise Fletcher

LifeTimeJoyCareLongFeelings

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

Jason Fuchs

BetterYouTryMoreNeedStage

I didn't like law. Every client had a problem, and I didn't want to listen to people's problems; I had enough of my own.

David Tang

PeopleLawProblemsProblemEnough

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

Bret McKenzie

SadHappyThinkActingPlayI Think

When I was in prison, a lot of my friends blew me away. But Stephen Fry wrote to me. It was very humbling.

Boy George

MePrisonFriendsAwayHumblingLot

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

Winona Ryder

ConfusedYouPerfectFeelingAccept

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

PhilosophyTrainNeverSecretSome

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