Nell Leyshon Quotes

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.

Nell Leyshon

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• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Down
  • Phone
  • Mechanic

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Nice
  • Film
  • Tears

• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Successful
  • Plan

• I just want to sit in my room and write books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Want
  • Write
  • Room

• Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Lies

• Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Childhood
  • Goal
  • Them

• There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • New
  • Building

• Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • American
  • Today
  • Imperialism

• If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Effort
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • True

• About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Know
  • Me
  • Like

• Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Good
  • Law
  • Purpose

• The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • World
  • Important
  • Man

• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Stage

• I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Office
  • Go
  • Come And Go

• When you turn 60, the key is to not stop moving. Once you start to stop moving, you rust. You got to just keep going.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Stop
  • Moving

• Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Moment

• I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Writing

• The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.

  

  Huey Lewis Huey Lewis
  • Choices

• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Late

• Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.

  

  Nell Leyshon
  • Writing
  • More
  • Prose