Bill Forsyth Quotes

I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list.

Bill Forsyth

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• I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Barbie

• I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • School
  • Girl
  • Lipstick

• I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Door

• When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Success
  • Girl
  • Moral

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Mom

• Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Political
  • Girl

• When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Writing
  • Girl

• I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Girl
  • Fashion
  • Body

• A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Parents

• I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Think

• Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Different
  • Hope

• What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Work
  • Girl
  • View

• I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Girl

• What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Woman
  • Sword

• 'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Girl

• I'm a girl who loves shoes. There is nothing like the feeling of trying on shoes at the store and they fit perfectly.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Feeling

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Girl

• I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Career
  • Science
  • Space

• Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity - that's what an artist is, that's what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

  

  Cynthia Voigt
  • College

• I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list.

  

  Bill Forsyth
  • Girl