Elizabeth Kostova Quotes

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

Elizabeth Kostova

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• Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Band
  • Like

• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

  

  Karen O
  • Years
  • Loved
  • Myth

• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Man
  • Legend
  • Mister

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

  

  Kajol
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Problems

• The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Learn
  • Looks

• I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Life
  • Always
  • Explore

• I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Open
  • Fair
  • Wanting

• There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Home
  • Woman
  • Tradition

• The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Art
  • Challenge
  • Moral

• I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Best
  • Win

• I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Stories
  • Tell
  • Express

• Apparently, I have such a serious race face, even when I'm doing a bit of work, at first everybody wasn't sure if I was enjoying it or not. But it's absolutely exhilarating. It feels like you're one with your horse and you're flying.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Work
  • Serious
  • Horse

• Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Relationship
  • Other
  • Had

• Tempus edax rerum.

  

  Ovid

• 'I suppose that's what we do in death⎯⎯⎯sleep in wonder.'

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Wonder

• Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Imagination

• My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's since passed away, I get so frustrated sometimes. I'm like, "Oh, Oma, why didn't you teach your kids German?" My dad would have spoken German to me from birth, and I would have spoken German.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Children
  • Why
  • She

• I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.

  

  David Moyes
  • Dream
  • Opportunity
  • Football

• I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Eye
  • Cameras
  • Landscape

• I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

  

  Elizabeth Kostova