Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Quotes to Explore
-
I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
-
Our favorite holding period is forever.
-
When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
-
My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
-
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
-
During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
-
As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
-
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
-
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
-
Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
-
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
-
Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
-
I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
-
It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
-
Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
-
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
-
I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
-
We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
-
But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.
-
My songs grow on people - like warts.
-
Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
-
The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
-
I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher.
-
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
