Bill Clegg Quotes

Left to my own devices, I'd probably Google myself all day.

Bill Clegg

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• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Watching
  • Judgmental

• Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!

  

  Sam Smith
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Hair

• In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • You
  • Phone
  • Phone Call

• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
  • You
  • Find

• I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Eye
  • Look

• It is tact that is golden, not silence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Silence
  • Golden
  • Tact

• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Yield

• Some people are brilliant on the first take, some people are brilliant on the fourth take, and when you are doing a group scene, you kind of have to figure that out.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Kind
  • Doing

• Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Wake Up

• However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nice
  • Always
  • Expected

• My thighs have been involved in many accidents,And now I can't get insured,And I don't need to be lured by you.My cunt is built like a wound that won't heal,And now you don't have to askBecause you know how I feel.

  

  Ani DiFranco

• O miseras hominum mentes, o pectora caeca!qualibus in tenebris vitae quantisque periclisdegitur hoc aevi quod cumquest! nonne viderenihil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut quicorpore seiunctus dolor absit, mente fruaturiucundo sensu cura semota metuque?

  

  Lucretius

• And so one becomes, or I become, anyway, slightly obsessive, particularly about my health, because you wouldn't want to read the letters people write when you're off and they're disappointed - it's so awful, the guilt one feels for not being there.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • People
  • Health

• Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Book
  • Red

• To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Revolution

• Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

  

  Donald Trump
  • War

• I love maxi dresses, I feel so great when I put on a maxi dress, big earrings and sandals.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Great

• I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People

• What is so painful about that time is that nothing was disastrous. It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then - we went on dancing.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Emotional

• If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.

  

  Jacques Audiard

• The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin of a world largely composed of socialist, communist states, in which the Soviet Union would be the prime mover.

  

  Paul Nitze
  • Progress
  • Soviet Union
  • Mover

• If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Walking
  • Sorry
  • Thank You

• Left to my own devices, I'd probably Google myself all day.

  

  Bill Clegg