Daphne du Maurier Quotes

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Daphne du Maurier

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• I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • True
  • Care
  • Thought

• Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Friends

• When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Funny

• Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • You
  • First

• Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Heart
  • Matter
  • Huge

• The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

  

  Haniel Long
  • May
  • History
  • Human

• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Player
  • Vision

• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Law

• I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Country
  • Day

• It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Work
  • Victim
  • Fault

• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Society
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• It doesn't matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Remember
  • Want

• Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Men
  • Today
  • Disaster

• There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Life
  • Business
  • Trust

• A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Film
  • Budget

• I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Clear

• It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Remember
  • Bad
  • Day

• The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Record
  • Campaign
  • Distributed

• It's fair to say that there's something retrograde about putting the leader of Star Wars rebellion in the position of "slave in a bikini." There's no question that that's a fair point. But, it is true, and it's kind of remarkable, that at this point in our history, the slave girl, for a time in the bikini, is the one who chokes her captor with her bare hands and using the chain with which he bound her. That's powerful stuff. That's more retributive feminism than I think teenaged boys had ever seen.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • War
  • Girl
  • Powerful

• I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.

  

  Alexander Chee

• Never judge someone based on what you've heard.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Judge
  • Heard

• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Strong

• Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

  

  Daphne du Maurier