Martha Beck Quotes

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeBeliefWorldviewEveryChose

Filming a story set in a war zone in the '60s was such a treat, as it gave me so much scope to dive into.

Jessie Buckley

WarMeTreatStoryDiveZone

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

Jerrold Nadler

NeedTortureAvailableInstrument

Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, France, and Switzerland - came when I was 11, and thereafter, we often tagged along on my father's European business trips.

Andrew Solomon

FamilyFatherMotherBusinessTravel

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.

Melissa McCarthy

SisterSmallCalmTragedyOnlyVery

The one thing I've always tried to do in my life, in my work, on TV, is I just keep it real. I find it hard and time-consuming to try to be fake.

Ana Navarro

LifeWorkFakeMy LifeFindTry

Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment.

Steven Hill

MomentDayEvery DayEmbarrassing

When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.

Steven Squyres

EyesWallsSawOurExposedBedrock

I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.

Lisa Murkowski

BelievePlannedPlanned Parenthood

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

Jon Watts

GreatFeelMoviesI Feel LikeJust

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.

Dianna Agron

Growing UpGrowingActorBallUp

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

Delmore Schwartz

HomeExperienceChildhoodSchool

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus

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