Maria Quotes

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

I never really had an idol.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

I don't do heavy weights at all.

I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life.

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

I personally love Jennifer Lawrence. She's an amazing actress, but so young and fresh and youthful.

I go to yoga classes and work on my core.

Those are real hard fans. There are a lot of them here. Some are a little bit crazy with their drinking their beers every once in a while. But I love it.

I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.

Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself.

I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

I’m trying to get away from roles. I used to identify myself strictly in terms of my role, but when your roles fall away, part of you falls with them.

I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.

We've witnessed history in the making.

So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

I don't think you have to go out and become Secretary of State or be Bono but I think it's to let people know that whatever they do in their life that that's good.

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?

I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more that you.

I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.

I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.

Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.

I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.

Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.

I don't offend anyone, I don't use anyone, I don't exploit anyone.

I had to pretend to drown. I was underwater, which is scary, and I'm not afraid of water, but people do die underwater.

I need something fun to get my mind off of pretending to die and I didn't have any squibs under water.

Even to play a dead body; that'd be an easy gig.

As an actor, I'll take any job.

I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.

I mostly, for someone who makes a lot of their living in comedy - and even for someone who doesn't make their living in comedy - I don't watch a lot of comedy.

I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.

If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of someone actually running for president in my mind all the time?

I have work to do as a human being.

Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.

Yippee. I’ve been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I’ll write a letter home to Mother. She’ll be so pleased.” --Leif

You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115