Mara Wilson Quotes

I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.

Mara Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifePeopleThinkLovedWishMy Own

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

John Naisbitt

ValuePeoplePayWilling

In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.

John Ortberg

MeSomeoneSeeingFeelingMoreSmug

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

Stefan Edberg

ConfidenceYouServeGotGoingWell

I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.

Tom Felton

Comfort ZoneComfortMoreWildZone

The decision to withdraw our missile defense sites from Poland put us in greater jeopardy, in my view.

Mitt Romney

DecisionViewDefenseGreaterUs

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

Jonny Lee Miller

LookingSurpriseYouSatisfaction

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

David Shields

ParentsRebellionBecomeFiction

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

Brian Johnson

GoodPeopleLuckGood LuckYear

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

Bruce Springsteen

PeopleComfortableAlwaysNatural

I knew I wanted to be a professional triathlete, but I didn't know it was possible until I won the junior champs. My dad said I should give Cambridge a go to see if I could do both, but it was only ever a trial.

Alistair Brownlee

ProfessionalGoKnowSaidPossible

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

William Godwin

EducationGovernmentHandsWillFail

I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.

Philip Roth

LifeWaterFeetMy LifeDownI Can

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