David Bromstad Quotes

Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.

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• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Book
  • Year
  • Research

• You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Matter

• We can be lonely together

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Together
  • Lonely
  • Union

• I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Comparison
  • Worthless

• Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • People
  • Great
  • Perfect

• Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• If there is any Arab problem we can solve it inside the Arab League. But we are going to deal with the other side, with the Israelis.... It is not me who will decide who will invite, to speak frankly. It is not me, it is not the Arab side, it is not the Israelis who will decide who will invite.

  

  Yasser Arafat

• The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Together

• We did nothing but breathe life into this team, that's all we did.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Life
  • Team
  • Breathe

• When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Soul
  • Free
  • Clothes

• I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • Together
  • Song

• The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Speak
  • Conscious
  • Tao

• True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Artist
  • Dreams
  • Visions

• You can be born gay, but not because of your genetics, I think because of your subconscious more than your genetics. I think genetically, we're made to reproduce. We can't survive this route. Genetically, that's the way to go. Genetically, we have to reproduce, but subconsciously, and preferentially, you can be born with that.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Thinking
  • Gay
  • Born

• AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.

  

  Dale Peck
  • Appearance
  • Ownership
  • Diseases

• We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Realizing

• Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.

  

  David Bromstad
  • Rooms
  • Headache
  • Measuring