Winningham Quotes

#1. My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering

Mare Winningham

#2. In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think I've been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.

Mare Winningham

#3. We should have apologized back then and made sure we had a rule in place and gone forward ... Steroids and all of that was a part of history. But it was a topic that everybody wanted to avoid. Nobody wanted to talk about it.

Jason Giambi

#4. Your God speaks of love, bur restricts who you love. I do not wish to be told who I can or cannot love. If I cannot love honestly, then it isn't love.

Jennis Slaughter

#5. Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Dejan Stojanovic

#6. I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

Mare Winningham

#7. What was a kiss without a kiss?
It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, everything jumbled against everything else in just a few chaotic moments. Fingers in hair. Hands cupping necks. Mouths dragged on cheeks and chins in dangerous proximity.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. God's word is a God sword.

Lisa Bevere

#9. I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make a mint in television movies.' He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects.

Mare Winningham

#10. How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

Cormac McCarthy

#11. The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Niki De St. Phalle

#12. Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#13. I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.

Donald Margulies

#14. The moment is brief, barely enough for a flutter of the pulse but long enough for her illusory self to catch up with the reality of the woman gazing back from the shopwindow. It is a little devastating. This is what aging is, she thinks

Khaled Hosseini

#15. Sometimes you think someone is holding your hand when really they're holding you back.

Rachael Allen

#16. My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.

Val Kilmer

#17. Foolhearted mindreader,
help us see how
the heart begs,
how fangs of opprobrium
possess our eyes.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#18. To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

Martha Beck

#19. Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

Jim Rohn

#20. When you begin to relinquish your ego, you will no longer feel compelled to prove to people how busy you are in an attempt to validate your sense of worth.

Miya Yamanouchi