Christopher Isherwood Quotes

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Christopher Isherwood

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• If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Happy
  • More
  • Accomplished

• Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Purpose
  • Ideas
  • Down

• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Woman
  • Looks

• I believe that sex is good and so is the body.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Sex

• There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Sometimes
  • Painting
  • Shadows

• My goal is to continue to act and still be a professional kiteboarder.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Goal
  • Professional
  • Act

• I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Something
  • Inherently

• I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Actors
  • Married
  • Fantastic

• If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.

  

  Iman
  • Deep
  • Situation
  • Walk

• I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Been
  • Photographer
  • Amateur

• I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Woman
  • First
  • Step

• Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Cool
  • Singing
  • Try

• I don't like when I look too cluttered.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • Look
  • Too

• It was Homaira and me against the world. ... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • World

• Mes ki ne mustre s'enfertéA peine en peot aver santé:Amur est plaie dedenz cors,E si ne piert nïent defors.Ceo est un mal que lunges tient,Pur ceo que de nature vient.

  

  Marie de France
  • Nature

• 'Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought.'

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi

• The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Wars may make heroes of men, but not all the time.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Time
  • Men
  • May

• There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Great
  • Job
  • Couple

• Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • You
  • Stop
  • Moving

• I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

  

  Christopher Isherwood