C. Wagner Quotes

Coaches and ownership are just like the fans on the street. They can always do it better, and they would always have done it differently when it doesn't work out.

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

The fans are great. They give me that extra edge.

For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.

The truth can be made up if you know how.

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.

When I first came into this world, Elvis was already fat.

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

Like what's the point being a health nut by day if you're a coke head at night.

If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.

The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.

It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

Reality is just a collective hunch.

I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.

If you are a human being, you might as well face it. You are going to rub a lot of people the wrong way.

Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?

I think that people love Wipeout simply because its just plain, simple fun.

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure Im balancing time between my career and my personal life.

Wipeout is a giant obstacle course for adults of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Whoever wins takes home $50,000 and gets to brag to all of their coworkers that they made it out alive!

I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

There's a thrill in going someplace you aren't supposed to go. The place should come down.

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

When you're born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast.

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.

I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly.

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

I think all kinds of music are being made. No one hears them. There's so much emphasis on a certain kind of music. It's difficult to find music nowadays. You have to make the effort to find it.

We lose things all the time. We lose ourselves every day. We lose our minds occasionally. But it's just a part of life, loss.

Pure memory isn't based on recall but rather involuntary memory that's in your body and your nerves.

Being vulnerable has always been my way of dealing with my grief, from the beginning. Even before I knew I was that way, I cried it out all the time. I expressed my feelings.

I was always attracted to characters that were in some level of turmoil or suffering because I had so much of that in my own life and I wanted to channel it. I was always into darker things.

If I walk into my house and something is askew, I can't do anything until I fix it. It's so burdensome to live that way.

I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.

Everything is in our cellular level. My mom's is definitely in my cellular memory.

Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts.