Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.Elizabeth Gilbert
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
Eavan Boland -
So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
Walter Salles -
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Vaclav Havel -
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Mackenzie Astin -
Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
Natalie Wood
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
Sam Hunt -
I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
Danica McKellar -
I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
Pankaj Mishra -
The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
Yolanda Adams -
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky -
I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
Gary Numan
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
Barry Jenkins -
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
Maajid Nawaz -
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller -
Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
Ina Garten -
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.
Jewel Kilcher -
I love Michelle Williams. I think she's extraordinary. I was such a fan of 'Blue Valentine,' and I heard stories about how Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams worked on that. They lived together for a period of time as rehearsal. From nine in the morning to five at night, living in a space together. The work is really awe-inspiring.
Mahershala Ali -
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
Lord Mountbatten -
Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't feel guilt. They're people who don't feel fear. I think that most of us feel those things. There's a kind of... They're almost like superheroes. Not to glorify them, but you know what I mean?
Annie Parisse -
I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
Brendan Gleeson -
I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.
Elizabeth Gilbert