Chris Cleave Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
-
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
-
My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
-
I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
-
If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
-
I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
-
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
-
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
-
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
-
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
-
I was the hallway clown in high school.
-
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
-
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
-
Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
-
In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
-
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
-
I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
-
England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
-
What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
-
I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.
-
Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls.
-
I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large number of people who were no longer able to swallow the customary forms of lying and living in lying.
-
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.
