Chris Cleave Quotes

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Christian
  • Serious

• To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Winning

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Greatest

• South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Small
  • Bitter
  • Africa

• Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Time
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Summer

• I've always been very fond of animals.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Always
  • Animals
  • Very

• You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Color

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Good
  • Positive
  • Advice

• It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Amazing

• My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Wife
  • Couple
  • Year

• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Become

• Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Know
  • End
  • Presidential

• God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Personality

• I am sure we all realize that this struggle that is going on though the World is really nothing more or less than a conflict between two opposing technocracies manifesting itself to the capitalization of economic resources and products and all that sort of thing.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • World
  • Struggle

• When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Life

• Without freedom there is no art.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Freedom

• Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.

  

  Barry O'Sullivan
  • Business
  • Insulted
  • Graziers

• If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Duty

• I didnt get to go to prom; I was filming a death scene on my prom night. But I got to go to all the homecomings, and even the winter formals I got to go to, but the only thing I missed was the prom, but everything else was great.

  

  Michael Angarano
  • Night
  • Winter
  • Scene

• This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

  

  Chris Cleave