Be inspired by things in life that are beautiful and good.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN I often think things through beyond reason.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN When faced with an either/or, be creative; discover the third choice.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN The will is a powerful ally and desperate enemy. When not subdued by self-control, it becomes a tyra...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Mastery of Self: A noble aim, impossible to grasp perfectly. The Hero: self, the embodiment of dilig...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Unless I am on a deserted island, my actions affect others; I cannot live to myself. Even if alone o...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Discipline is denying the favored choice in pursuit of a higher goal.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Be brave enough to ask forgiveness and heroic enough to forgive immediately.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Perhaps wars would spring forth more readily if aggression were not so heartily directed at strange ...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Relax. Smile. Breathe. You can do this.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN What I say must be under constant scrutiny. It is not enough to silence hurtful speech; I must endea...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Doing what is expected is boring. Go beyond mediocre and aim toward excellence!
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN At the end of the day, be content. Do not chafe under an apprehension that you should have done more...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN The ability to exhibit the right emotion often resides with acting on the hard choice.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN DdEEterMI-NAAAAAtion: The process is painful, draining, and provides no ultimate guarantee. It is on...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Responsibility is the ability to give a response, that is, an answer for what I have or have not don...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN If I survive this week without losing what's left of my health, sanity, or grades, it will be a mira...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Utilize pain to build a stronger quality of character.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Refuse the dictatorship of capricious emotion.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN College is neither good for its own sake nor necessary . . . and that will not be the topic of my pe...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN If no valid reason exists to NOT do something, then it MUST be done; perhaps especially when the act...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Joy exists. Hardships pass. Look for humor, learn to laugh. Life is what you focus on.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Appreciation is a powerful gift, given far too rarely. Don't be blind to the blessings in your life.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN A hug is a perfect gift. One size fits all. And no one minds if you exchange it.
BILL VANDERLINDEN As a young teen, I wanted things ordered my way. I blamed the masters of the universe (parents) for ...
SCOTT VANDERLINDEN We have Regular Life, Cinnamon Life, Honey Graham Life, and oh, look, more Life! And if you don't wa...
JASMINE VANDERLINDEN I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
NATASHA TSAKOS I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with ...
NATASHA TSAKOS I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'U...
NATASHA TSAKOS As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you'...
NATASHA TSAKOS I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've ...
NATASHA TSAKOS Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing th...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it di...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My ...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress ...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybri...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at h...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn ...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generation...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace ...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
NATASHA TRETHEWEY A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, ...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers,...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what wa...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myse...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mu...
NATASHA RICHARDSON Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work...
NATASHA RICHARDSON I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.
NATASHA RICHARDSON The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hu...
NATASHA RICHARDSON A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
NATASHA RICHARDSON I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to b...
NATASHA RICHARDSON As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our child...
NATASHA RICHARDSON I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so ...
NATASHA RICHARDSON I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about...
NATASHA RICHARDSON I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
NATASHA RICHARDSON What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
NATASHA RICHARDSON I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all...
NATASHA RICHARDSON What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are ...
NATASHA RICHARDSON I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
NATASHA LYONNE It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
NATASHA LYONNE I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think...
NATASHA LYONNE You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you&...
NATASHA LYONNE I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
NATASHA LYONNE I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing...
NATASHA LYONNE I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen ...
NATASHA LYONNE The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in ...
NATASHA LYONNE Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely ...
NATASHA LYONNE I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urch...
NATASHA LYONNE I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'o...
NATASHA LYONNE My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
NATASHA LYONNE There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There&#...
NATASHA LYONNE I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, l...
NATASHA LYONNE As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying w...
NATASHA LYONNE I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
NATASHA LYONNE You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not...
NATASHA LYONNE As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deepl...
NATASHA LYONNE There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing...
NATASHA LYONNE I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a p...
NATASHA LYONNE The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's...
NATASHA LYONNE Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I g...
NATASHA LYONNE I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, beca...
NATASHA LYONNE It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one anoth...
NATASHA LYONNE You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think yo...
NATASHA LITTLE I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I'...
NATASHA LITTLE I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing ...
NATASHA LITTLE It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.
NATASHA LITTLE I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
NATASHA LITTLE 'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet ther...
NATASHA LITTLE I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a...
NATASHA LITTLE I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
NATASHA LITTLE By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.
NATASHA LITTLE I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
NATASHA LITTLE I've been very fortunate.
NATASHA LITTLE Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
NATASHA LITTLE It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was a...
NATASHA LITTLE My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was ...
NATASHA LITTLE I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in p...
NATASHA LITTLE I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that pers...
NATASHA LITTLE Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn'...
NATASHA LITTLE Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
NATASHA LITTLE As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn...
NATASHA LITTLE I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.
NATASHA LITTLE Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you g...
NATASHA LITTLE Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something f...
NATASHA LITTLE I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get ver...
NATASHA LITTLE I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregna...
NATASHA LITTLE I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and...
NATASHA LITTLE I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my lif...
NATASHA LITTLE In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
NATASHA LEGGERO In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
NATASHA LEGGERO I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up ...
NATASHA LEGGERO I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not g...
NATASHA LEGGERO My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right n...
NATASHA LEGGERO Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedia...
NATASHA LEGGERO Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where ...
NATASHA LEGGERO When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
NATASHA LEGGERO I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
NATASHA LEGGERO What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and...
NATASHA LEGGERO I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until y...
NATASHA LEGGERO I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
NATASHA LEGGERO I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, ...
NATASHA LEGGERO Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.
NATASHA LEGGERO For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them....
NATASHA LEGGERO I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
NATASHA LEGGERO Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.
NATASHA LEGGERO There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm...
NATASHA LEGGERO Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.
NATASHA LEGGERO I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dati...
NATASHA LEGGERO There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans ...
NATASHA LEGGERO Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you di...
NATASHA LEGGERO Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,'...
NATASHA LEGGERO The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
NATASHA LEGGERO My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is li...
NATASHA LEGGERO My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy &...
NATASHA LEGGERO It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go t...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think other...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, ...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too st...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I nev...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been ...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out fro...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out a...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girli...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being ...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
NATASHA HAMILTON We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!
NATASHA HAMILTON Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.
NATASHA HAMILTON I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me...
NATASHA HAMILTON If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.
NATASHA HAMILTON I love anything quiz related.
NATASHA HAMILTON When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I...
NATASHA CALIS What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from ...
NATASHA CALIS I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a dif...
NATASHA CALIS I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's ...
NATASHA CALIS I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, bu...
NATASHA CALIS I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean som...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I fi...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew w...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy....
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger ...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I would love to do something with Coldplay.
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD The common denominator is a love of music.
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I get very deep into the writing and recording process.
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I&...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make ...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring count...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different thin...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I was...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under...
NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is ...
NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.
NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
NATASHA LYONNE When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY When Mathematics unfold through Origamis,
when video games target Medicine and Education,
NATASHA TSAKOS The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk...
NATASHA LEGGERO I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experi...
NATASHA LYONNE People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atroc...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD