Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Want
  • Place
  • Lady

• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Stand
  • Treat

• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Children
  • War
  • Fight

• Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Time
  • Vision

• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Short

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Lost
  • Religion
  • Say

• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Going
  • Alien
  • Hospital

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Want

• Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Said
  • Now

• The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Home
  • Play
  • Piano

• I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Try

• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Changes
  • Looking

• I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Proud
  • English
  • Feel

• There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • You
  • Better
  • Overcoming

• While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.

  

  Dave Reichert
  • People
  • American
  • High

• For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Amazing

• My favorite album is 'Abbey Road.' I love 'Hey Jude.'

  

  John F. Kerry
  • Road

• I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
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