Top 100 Quotes About Mara
#2. Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn't matter if things aren't going the way you thought they would or if you're facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you're winning.
Mara Schiavocampo
#3. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
Kate O'Mara
#5. I generally assumed a guy was gay until proven straight, taken until proven single, and not interested until he'd put his tongue in my mouth.
Mara Wilson
#6. I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
Kate O'Mara
#7. When Wellington Mara died in 2005, he took a piece of the organization's soul with him - one that fans, players, and staff still miss.
Dave Buscema
#8. 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
#9. I could have blamed it on the intoxication of youth.
Others might find fault on just intoxication.
My parents would say that it was an act of plain stupidity.
Reality would point out that it was Thursday night at college and the youth are prone to err.
Mara Joaquin
#10. I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.
Michelle Hodkin
#11. As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the "other girls," and that every girl in the world is, too.
Mara Wilson
#12. It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
Kamisese Mara
#13. The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
Wellington Mara
#14. Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.
Mara Liasson
#15. A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.
Jason O'Mara
#17. Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
Kate O'Mara
#18. Children all over the world do ridiculous, borderline dangerous things, and no one around them questions it, because it's ingrained in their culture. So it was with child acting in Southern California.
Mara Wilson
#19. You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.
Michelle Hodkin
#20. I never drink cow's milk; I always opt for the soya alternative, and when I eat most dairy products, it tends to be in extremely small doses. However, being a vegetarian means I have to get protein from somewhere, so I do eat eggs and cheese about once a week.
Kate O'Mara
#21. Music is a second language to my heart.
Mara Arps
#22. I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.
Rooney Mara
#23. It's really exhilarating and exciting to be able to meet your fan base and see them in person, and see the lengths that they're willing to go to.
Jason O'Mara
#24. The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
Mara Liasson
#25. You don't get what you do for him. You're like his manic pixie dream girl or something." Jamie thought for a second. "Actually, more like his psychotic demon nightmare thing, but whatever. You get my point.
Michelle Hodkin
#26. Love is triumphant, until we all fall down.
Mara White
#27. I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.
Kate O'Mara
#28. 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
#29. I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie's cheek.
"FUCK," he shouted, wiping it off. "What if you killed me!" He threw a Skittle at my face. It hit my forehead.
"Ow!"
"Taste the rainbow bitch.
Michelle Hodkin
#30. Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while.
Mara Wilson
#31. You saw this as a travesty because, by marrying Mara, I was taking an important icon from you. But this is about starting a new life, not ending an old one.
Michael A. Stackpole
#32. Iain?"
"Mmm?"
"If the bairn is a lass, I'd like to name her after our mothers - Mara Elesaid."
"'Tis a bonnie name. And if 'tis a laddie?"
"Then we shall name him after his father."
"Och, well, 'tis a grand idea. And what name would that be?"
"You daftie!
Pamela Clare
#33. I don't ever take anything for granted.
Kate Mara
#34. Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
Mara Brock Akil
#35. I know something about a lot of things," she countered evenly. "That's why you're grooming me to be your lieutenant, remember?" - Mara Jade
Timothy Zahn
#36. Vacations in my family are rare events squeezed between races. I can count them on one hand, and even those amount to only a few hours each. Shopping in Los Angeles. Sinking my toes into snow white sand in Florida. They are tiny slips of memory strung around horses.
Mara Dabrishus
#37. As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.
Rooney Mara
#38. Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
Kate Mara
#39. Mara hurries over and takes my hands. "Er, congratulations on your pending nuptials?"
I whisper, "He'll be so angry when he learns I have engaged us without his knowledge.
Rae Carson
#40. I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
Kamisese Mara
#41. Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
Kate Mara
#42. The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.
Mara Wilson
#43. I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it.
Michelle Hodkin
#44. If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
Mara Wilson
#45. The diffeence between a fake death and a real one is slim.
Mara
Shane Dix
#47. I hate that I never managed to persuade you to watch Buffy. It's a flaw in you, Mara.
Michelle Hodkin
#48. Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That keeps his campaign alive. But Hillary Clinton won Louisiana, which was the big prize of the night, so she ended up winning more delegates than he did yesterday.
Mara Liasson
#49. I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
Kate O'Mara
#50. One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings
Timothy Zahn
#52. Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.
Michelle Hodkin
#53. I just watched the entire season of 'Louie' in one flight. What an amazing show.
Jason O'Mara
#54. We're mutants now?"
"Don't tell Marvel. They'll sue us.
Michelle Hodkin
#55. My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.
Rooney Mara
#56. She was here, and it was now; and as the emperor's instructors had so often drummed into her, the first item of business was to fit into her surroundings. And that meant not looking like an escapee from the medical ward
Timothy Zahn
#57. And I cannot break the bonds of my word. Only you can release me from that promise. Say what you want from me, Mara. Say it, or I shall sooner die here in your arms waiting."
~Daegan Raeliksen
Renee Vincent
#58. I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
Mara Wilson
#59. I'm too selfish to leave you," I said. Noah pulled back so I could see his smile. "I'm too selfish to let you.
Michelle Hodkin
#60. Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
Kamisese Mara
#61. The ones who scared me, who still scare me, are the girls who see all other girls as competition, who see themselves as the persecuted ones, the ones whom the pretty and popular girls hate. When you believe you're persecuted, you will believe anything you do is justified.
Mara Wilson
#62. I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.
Georgina Chapman
#63. Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too.
Mara Wilson
#64. Grounded likely means no phone or computer," Jamie said. "But if I encounter an owl, I'll try to smuggle a message to the outside, okay?
Michelle Hodkin
#65. Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
Kamisese Mara
#66. There's disgust with what people called a broken political system, and they're really angry at elites, whether it's the Republican establishment or particularly the media who they feel look down on them, tell them they're bigots.
Mara Liasson
#67. Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.
Kate O'Mara
#68. Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
Kate O'Mara
#69. I might say, in passing, that my life seems to have been one long search for the Mara who would devour all the others and give them significant reality.
Henry Miller
#70. You could start a fire with the heat between you two."
"You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.
Michelle Hodkin
#72. On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.
Kate O'Mara
#73. If I were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one of them.
Michelle Hodkin
#74. I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
Mara Brock Akil
#75. Don't you mean 'assclown'?" he looked amused.
"No," I said louder this time. "I mean asscrown. The crown on top of the asshat that covers the asshole of the assclown. The very zenith in the hierarchy of asses.
Michelle Hodkin
#77. I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.
Rooney Mara
#78. Mara, if you're tired, I can hear it. If you're hurt, I can feel it. And if you lie, I will know it.
Michelle Hodkin
#79. The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.
Mara Liasson
#80. I'm relieved to hear that your vanity has weathered this egregious trial unscathed."
"Thank y
Oh. Sarcasm again.
Rae Carson
#81. I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.
Kate Mara
#82. I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.
Rooney Mara
#83. If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.
Michelle Hodkin
#84. I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there.
Kate O'Mara
#85. I don't hear peeing," Jamie said mockingly.
"Eat me," I muttered.
"What's that?"
"Leave me," I said louder.
Michelle Hodkin
#86. Who cares what other people think? Don't let the opinions of others define you.
Mara Purnhagen
#87. I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.
Kate O'Mara
#88. I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.
Kamisese Mara
#89. I'm sure you get energy from your audience; it's a high.
Rooney Mara
#90. You're Mara, you're sweet, you're beautiful and I will not forget until the day I die how beautiful it felt to slide inside you with you wrapped around me, see your eyes get wet and know straight in my gut that you felt how beautiful it was too.
Kristen Ashley
#91. Mara : I'm too selfish to leave you
Noah Shaw : I'm too selfish to let you
Michelle Hodkin
#92. Names?' the receptionist asked us.
"Jesus," Jamie answered.
"Mary," said Stella.
"Satan," I said as I walked past her and pushed open the door to Ira Ginsberg's office.
Michelle Hodkin
#93. My father might be right. If I lost Noah, I might just lose my mind.
Michelle Hodkin
#94. Relax Mara," he said softly, his eyes going super warm. "I don't bite."
I wished he did. I really, really did.
Kristen Ashley
#95. I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
Kate Mara
#96. That damn mara was an emotional ninja, sneaking up on your heart when you least expected it.
Rachel Vincent
#97. The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.
Mara Wilson
#98. I would wait forever for the promise of seeing Mara, unleashed.
Michelle Hodkin
#99. I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
Mara Wilson
#100. I didn't know enough to hold myself back. Now I was too aware, hyperaware, and so the fear chained me.
Michelle Hodkin
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