Dave Gibbons Quotes

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

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• I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • True
  • Small
  • Child

• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Control
  • Red
  • Difficult

• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Together
  • Perfection
  • Exist

• I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

  

  Sam Simon
  • People
  • Giving
  • Generosity

• Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Influence

• I'm not a great writer.

  

  E. L. James
  • Great
  • Writer
  • Great Writer

• Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Life
  • Cool

• They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Business
  • Chicago
  • Down

• If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

  

  Dan Rather
  • History
  • Seat
  • Aisle

• This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • History
  • Best
  • Challenge

• I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Never

• When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Love
  • Will

• My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Music
  • Song

• I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Respect
  • Singer
  • Dare

• I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Remember
  • Thought
  • Guitar

• It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

  

  James Caan
  • Important
  • Words

• Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Church
  • Silent
  • Poem

• I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.

  

  Kate Horsley
  • World
  • Humans
  • Christ

• I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Romantic

• I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

  

  Dave Gibbons