Tobey Maguire quote: "My mom wanted to be an actress, so she figured her son could be one for her. She said she'd give me $100 to take drama instead of home ec-I wanted to be a cook like my pops."

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.
TOBEY MAGUIRE

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You kn...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of m...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

I am a blank slate-therefore I can create anything I want.
TOBEY MAGUIRE

I've been pretty fortunate; everybody I've worked with has been pretty ego-free and they're just the...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

I love exploring psychology and getting inside someone's head or exploring the dynamics of how coupl...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

You simply cannot control other people's thoughts or actions and you can't even necessarily control ...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

I think women have the advantage over men - they tend to be much more in touch with their feelings a...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

Every actor has to establish a presence that not only fits the overall needs of the story but allows...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I disco...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.
TOBEY MAGUIRE

I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four da...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very muc...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I d...
TOBEY MAGUIRE

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of acti...
MARK TOBEY

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.
MARK TOBEY

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards a...
MARK TOBEY

The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner...
MARK TOBEY

Their guards are very tough. Both of those games (the second went to overtime) weren't easy at all. ...
TOBEY HILLIARD

The things that are wrong with the country today are the sum total of all the things that are wrong ...
CHARLES W. TOBEY

'Bridget Jones' is meant to be a funny night out, but with emotional truth. I wanted to make...
SHARON MAGUIRE

That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most imperso...
EMILY MAGUIRE

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegi...
SEAN MAGUIRE

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

The wall read:
ELPHIE LIVES
OZMA LIVES
THE WIZARD LIVES
and then
EVERYONE L...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
GREGORY MAGUIRE

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone over...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding o...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I'm very lucky with the people that recognise me - it's at a very tolerable level. I don'...
SEAN MAGUIRE

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.
SEAN MAGUIRE

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world t...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.
EMILY MAGUIRE

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thin...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Our cafe is going to be open on the first of May.
NICHOLE MAGUIRE

I had really tried to do everything else but [revisit Oz]. Partly because I knew there would be some...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilt...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Yes, ... It's called 'Son of a Witch.'
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
GREGORY MAGUIRE

You had me at hello.
JERRY MAGUIRE

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
GREGORY MAGUIRE

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been un...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the b...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

[He says he does have a favorite person to work with:] [Tom] Cruise, man. No contest. He was very ki...
JERRY MAGUIRE

Show me the money
JERRY MAGUIRE

You're fun to look at," decided Galinda.

Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said.

I'd ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

One of my earliest memories is my father telling me to behave because I'm about to meet and work...
SEAN MAGUIRE

Hart is one of the best around. He's a tremendously strong, tough, fast athlete, who has all the too...
SHAWN MAGUIRE

The nighttime crowd is definitely the same as it always was. The big difference is at daytime. It st...
FAY MAGUIRE

To be competitive for a league championships and to fight as a top team. We expect a lot from our ki...
SHAWN MAGUIRE

Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Let's be honest, this is a game where The Citadel gets a nice paycheck.
PAUL MAGUIRE

Rod Tidwell: Anyone else would have left you by now, but I'm sticking with you. And if I have to rid...
JERRY MAGUIRE

No man is too big to be kind...but many men are too little.
MATT MAGUIRE

There's been some times where it's been rough. It's not the easiest thing to leave a situation where...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Though investors were rattled by the lack of Q&A following a terse call, we believe reticence reflec...
EDWARD MAGUIRE

Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!
GREGORY MAGUIRE

In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if t...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

When we look at the economic fundamentals in Japan, and how they've unfolded in the last six months,...
GLENN MAGUIRE

One thing it highlights, again, is the wrong-headedness of the notion that higher state taxes and in...
MATTHEW MAGUIRE

The neighborhood was really stark. The main feature of the neighborhood was the viaducts that ran ov...
FAY MAGUIRE

He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow b...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure o...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

No one is exempt from grief.
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

In the end, all disguises must drop.
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before th...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haun...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I'm just doing your tea, Mum," he said.
"Are you all imbecilic? Is that a requirement of enlis...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Depending on the location, the bridge would mean potential economic foundation we don't have right n...
BRUCE MAGUIRE

In Queensland we operate under about 15 different [funding] contractual arrangements.
BRUCE MAGUIRE

We're just in the process of digesting what that means and how we will respond.
BRUCE MAGUIRE

A lot of people celebrate their past, but I don't look at it all. I don't Google myself; I f...
SEAN MAGUIRE

As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior i...
SEAN MAGUIRE

We think stock weakness is overdone and would be buyers at current levels.
EDWARD MAGUIRE

Given generally negative sentiment on the stock, signs of stability could prove positive for the sha...
EDWARD MAGUIRE

You kind of like to do games. If that's part of the deal, hey that's fine, too.
PAUL MAGUIRE

My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they w...
SEAN MAGUIRE

He's got over 800 now. so if he continues his average of more than 20 points a game, he could do it....
DAVE MAGUIRE

He could make a run for it. He's averaged about 25 points a game this season, so who knows.
DAVE MAGUIRE

He's a pure shooter; that's his best asset. He's not afraid to pull up from anywhere on the court, a...
DAVE MAGUIRE

I've had to tell him repeatedly to shoot more often. When he was a freshman, I had to bench him a co...
DAVE MAGUIRE

It wasn't the cleanest game we've played. They're really excited, so I think they may have been over...
DAVE MAGUIRE

They're a young team, but they managed to battle back. We were down by quite a bit in the first half...
DAVE MAGUIRE

The fans were getting into the game after that three. So that run that Mark gave us was huge in stop...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

Any time, any place? I ask, gazing out across the glittering lake.
A breeze disturbs it's silv...
EDEN MAGUIRE

I have always felt like a pawn... My skin color's been a curse, my missionary parents made me sober ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I thought if this catches on, that would be a sign from God I should move here,
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Son of a Witch,
GREGORY MAGUIRE

The end result is that they sent me a bill for $31,000 due on Oct. 8 which is a weird day to pick be...
FRANK MAGUIRE

They are saying that I am the same as a landlord. They said I should have been collecting taxes for ...
FRANK MAGUIRE

Elast-Eon is a very clean material that is free of the silicone oil that has been leaching out of ge...
FRANK MAGUIRE

Now they're too firm,
FRANK MAGUIRE

It makes all the sense in the world to move ahead and take it to the stage where we're ready for cli...
FRANK MAGUIRE

The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,
FRANK MAGUIRE

It was nights that kept us open. Mostly weekend nights.
FAY MAGUIRE

It's unambiguously good news for Japan. It signals the dark days of deflation are behind us.
GLENN MAGUIRE

When we look at investment, it appears to be structurally too low. The political tension will hold d...
GLENN MAGUIRE

These reports are clear evidence that the consumer caution that drove the slowing in the economy in ...
GLENN MAGUIRE

Progressively, the skill set of the population is growing.
GLENN MAGUIRE

Today's numbers highlight the inappropriateness of rate-cut expectations.
GLENN MAGUIRE

It's a mutually complementary relationship. Most of the economic and trade relationship between the ...
GLENN MAGUIRE

Given gasoline is such a small component of the household basket in Japan, it should be having an al...
GLENN MAGUIRE

He's so smart he knows that it's maybe more important here to run an extra 45 seconds off the clock ...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

He's a special kid for us. You've got two Division I basketball players. You've got E.J. Jones getti...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

That's what Mark does. He hustles on every play and gets lost in the mix until he does something lik...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

Spencer doesn't have to shoot and score to make plays for us. He's our leader. I've said that before...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

We realized it was an important game for us because an opportunity for an undefeated season doesn't ...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

It was just back and forth and nobody could ever get the upper hand. We just knew that we need to ex...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

Spencer's definitely our leader, on and off the court, by example. He doesn't yell. I don't think we...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

Alton has a great team. You've got to give them a lot of credit. They came out here and played on ou...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

It was just an amazing feeling just to look up and you don't see any empty seats. To come out here k...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

The tedious never die; that's what makes them tedious.
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Sarah felt like the bad girl in an eighties teen flick. The girl with big hair and a tight shirt who...
EMILY MAGUIRE

Fucking was poetry unbound.
EMILY MAGUIRE

And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much...
EMILY MAGUIRE

Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way ...
EMILY MAGUIRE

The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if yo...
EMILY MAGUIRE

But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people yo...
EMILY MAGUIRE

She was both beautiful and a member of one of the 'first families' of San Antonio two qualities b...
JACK MAGUIRE

Two years ago, he swam the 50-meter butterfly in 37 seconds. That's quick, but a high school athlete...
JACK MAGUIRE

Almost all of the athletes in Special Olympics have intellectual disabilities of one degree or anoth...
JACK MAGUIRE

Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history
GREGORY MAGUIRE

A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for ...
TONI MAGUIRE

They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls you...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I'll tell you . . .
PAUL MAGUIRE

We know some of our fans were shocked and ... upset. I totally understand it. My problem is, when do...
MARTIE MAGUIRE

It's the people who have gone overboard and done such irrational things that take you back to the da...
MARTIE MAGUIRE

You guys are going to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, ... What an honor.
MARTIE MAGUIRE

Hand-washing, wearing clothes that minimize the spread of infection such as clean, closely woven cot...
PETER MAGUIRE

I'm just grateful for the opportunity to say thanks to Pat for the thousands of persons whose lives ...
ROBERT MAGUIRE

They're doing a great job.
NICHOLE MAGUIRE

It's a very big game next week for us. They got done last week and they're a very proud side, Brisba...
MATT MAGUIRE

I didn't need much time to prepare, we've got so many leaders out on the ground. But he (Ball) will ...
MATT MAGUIRE

The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the sou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere -...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the crack...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a st...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

He set out once more, with a sense that his life would be rich in setting outs, and perhaps poorer i...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Adoption is not about finding children for families, it's about finding families for children
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My mom wanted to be an actress, so she figured her son could be one for her. She said she'd give me $100 to take drama instead of home ec-I wanted to be a cook like my pops.

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My mom wanted to be an actress, so she figured her son could be one for her. She said she'd give me $100 to take drama instead of home ec-I wanted to be a cook like my pops.

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