Mark Rylance Quotes

If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same, a bit like that 'Let the Right One' in film.

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Support
  • Proud
  • Secretary

• I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Always
  • Afraid
  • Exceptions

• Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Character
  • Respect

• Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Experience
  • Out
  • Harvard

• I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Political
  • Space
  • Should

• I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.

  

  Warren G
  • School
  • Kids
  • Care

• I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Unique

• I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Art
  • Rest

• An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Wonder
  • Canvas

• Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • People
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Business
  • Bad
  • India

• You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Night

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God
  • Joy
  • Gratitude

• Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.

  

  Patti Hansen
  • Kids
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

  

  John Keats
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Brain

• People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
  • Up
  • Daughter

• If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same, a bit like that 'Let the Right One' in film.

  

  Mark Rylance