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Mara Wilson Quotes

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

Mara Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 24, 1987

Topics

People Me Grow Said Write Grow Up

I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.

Jim James

Time Vacation Losing Me Feel Go

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

Jesmyn Ward

Family Community History Choices Our

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

John Burroughs

Money Beginning Values Real See

I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.

Melissa McCarthy

Beautiful Time Queen New York Crazy

If you want people to do something new, you have to make it rewarding for them creatively and financially.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

People You New Want Something Make

I was born in South Africa and lived there until I was 19.

St. Lucia

Born Africa Lived South Africa Until

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

Steven Zaillian

People Small Cinema Go Watch Would

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

Rufus Sewell

Lazy Say Question Ask Same Quote

It's quite nice to play on a golf course that, even though it is links, that there's not much wind, which is good.

Jason Day

Good Wind Golf Play Nice Even

I don't want to have to think about what is right; I want to live right. And what that means to me is going to be different to some of my fans, some of their parents, and some other role models.

Dove Cameron

Live Parents Me Think Be Different

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

Bob Schieffer

Responsibility Debate True Judgment

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

Annie Baker

Trying Stop Vermont Town Setting