Mark Goddard Quotes

I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.

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• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Athlete

• I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Brands
  • Surviving

• The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Popular

• I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Teaching
  • Without
  • Pity

• I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Myself

• I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Amazing
  • Fashion
  • Revolution

• Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happen

• I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Think
  • Change
  • Politics

• The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Woman
  • See
  • Smell

• I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Unhappy

• A person in my position has to restrain himself.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Person
  • Position
  • Himself

• Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Nothing
  • Terrorism

• There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Poets
  • Functions
  • Hallucinations

• The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

  

  W. H. Auden

• A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• 'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Truth

• 'You have no mind to be unkind,' Said echo in her ear: 'No mind to bring a living thing To suffering or fear. For all that's bad, or mean or sad, you have no mind, my dear.'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Fear

• When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Movie
  • Hate

• Every religion curbs women rights to some extent. Some countries acted against religions and put a ban on wearing hijab, which was also a violation of human rights.

  

  Asma Jahangir
  • Women

• I liked the name Frederick Bickel and I wish now I had left it as it was. After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, didn't change his, and he did all right.

  

  Fredric March
  • Wish

• Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.

  

  David Fisher
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Worship

• I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.

  

  Mark Goddard