Dawn French Quotes

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

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• Only in your imagination can you revise.

  

  Fay Wray
  • You
  • Imagination
  • Only

• Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Brain
  • Body
  • Evidence

• I worry unnecessarily.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Worry
  • Unnecessarily

• You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Want
  • You
  • Stock

• Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • May
  • Ideas
  • Enough

• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Know
  • Almost

• The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Real
  • Fact
  • Invention

• Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really dehydrated, and the water was really different. It was really strange, because you're on the other side of the planet, and you think, 'Oh, water is the same everywhere,' and it is, but it still felt strange.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Different
  • Water

• I like breakfast sandwiches, and the Krystal Sunriser might be the best breakfast sandwich on Earth. It has a really soft bun and sausage, eggs, and cheese on it. It's great if you're out until 5 or 6 in the morning and you happen to catch the 5:30 first shift. That's what I used to do when I played clubs; I would almost stay out until they opened.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Morning

• The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Service
  • Enough

• Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Life
  • You
  • Percent

• Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Funny
  • Ambition
  • Directing

• The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Behavior
  • Customers

• Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing
  • Hollywood
  • Cinema

• In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Experience
  • Sad

• Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Strength
  • Social Media

• I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the record on. There’s no need to veil what’s happening in the song the way I used to. My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Song

• I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don't really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing - this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Crazy
  • Paris

• I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Finding
  • Wear
  • Colour

• I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • World
  • Forever

• What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

  

  Matthew Shipp
  • Done

• I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

  

  Dawn French