Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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• Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Keep

• Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Opportunity
  • Winning
  • Chance

• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Artist
  • Painting

• I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Love
  • Always
  • Before

• I wasn't a great athlete.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Great
  • Athlete

• Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Fear
  • Sometimes
  • Wrong

• My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Happy

• 'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Think
  • Community
  • Comedy

• Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Dark

• I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Simple
  • Myself

• I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Never
  • Actor
  • Possible

• I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.

  

  Sam Dew
  • Always
  • Better
  • Sounds

• The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Advice
  • Patience
  • Loved

• I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Work
  • Job
  • American

• And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Up
  • You
  • Serious

• We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

  

  Edward Heath
  • War
  • Christmas

• All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses:But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms.Now I’ve left my sweetheart: and they’ve left me,And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope.But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me:Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Success
  • Road
  • Course

• I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Shoe polish
  • Overstocked shelf

• I saw 'Hairspray' at the Pantages in L.A. It came to the Pantages right before I did the movie, and just being in New York sometimes and seeing the marquees and everything like that, I'm like, 'I really, really have to go experience a Broadway play.'

  

  Elijah Kelley
  • Experience
  • Movie

• Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Single
  • Dumb

• One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sea
  • Receive
  • Polluted Stream

• Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee