David Morse Quotes

With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.

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• Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Why
  • Know
  • Doing

• 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Singing
  • Happiness
  • Story

• I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • Sell
  • Turkey

• I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Writer
  • Pay
  • Wrote

• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• There's more to life than cheek bones.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • More
  • Bones

• I'm very flirtatious, and I enjoy it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Enjoy
  • Very
  • Flirtatious

• The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Best

• I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Want
  • Laugh

• It doesn't matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Remember
  • Want

• Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Favorite
  • England
  • Before

• Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Today
  • Hand
  • Woman

• I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Game

• When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Training
  • Opponents
  • Cater

• If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Man

• To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.

  

  Antonio Gramsci
  • Truth
  • Together

• Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.

  

  Angela Carter
  • She
  • Alone
  • Door

• I think the word 'woke' is now over. The first time I heard my mature, white dad use that term, I was like 'OK, this is done.'

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Time
  • Done
  • Dad

• I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Music

• When he realized he was getting duped he actually broke down and started to cry. He thought these guys were friends and helping him get the pictures off the Internet.

  

  David Joyce
  • Friends
  • Helping
  • Guys

• But that which is useful is the better.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.

  

  David Morse