Top 20 Maude Adams Quotes
#1. I have yet to understand the ritual of sacrifice in monotheism; to a supposed Creator who has supposedly given us what we will be eventually sacrificing.
If I take a small mirror and reflect sunlight back to the sun, am I sacrificing to the sun?
Haroutioun Bochnakian
#2. I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.
Maude Adams
#3. You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.
Maude Adams
#4. If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
Yao Ming
#5. When I was about 15 ... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
Maude Adams
#6. Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Maude Adams
#7. We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.
Tommy Tran
#8. Music is everywhere," Maude said softly. "It is in the water, in the wind's hum, in the bird's cry, in the boat's horn. Rhythm surrounds us. That is one of life's greatest gifts.
Anna Adams
#9. When he thanked Maude, she knew the camera would be on her, screening each twitch her face twisted into, so she did what any other dignified artist would do and stuck out her tongue.
Anna Adams
#10. Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
Maude Adams
#11. I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.
Maude Adams
#12. The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.
Peter Ueberroth
#14. I had never realized what grand things air and sunlight are till I had been deprived of them.
Harriet Jacobs
#15. Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.
Maude Adams
#16. Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.
Helen Wells
#17. Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.
Maude Adams
#19. Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
Simone De Beauvoir
#20. If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.
Maude Adams
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