Dawn French Quotes

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

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• The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Possibilities
  • Data

• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Training

• I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Girl

• It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Fun
  • Hanging
  • Bell

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Reality
  • Courage

• A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Good
  • Team
  • Football

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Ugly
  • Stage
  • Walk

• I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Think
  • More
  • Now

• I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Wish
  • Model
  • Tall

• Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Country
  • Children
  • American

• My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • World
  • Better
  • Commitment

• I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.

  

  OMI
  • Artist
  • Reggae
  • Dancehall

• Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.

  

  Nash Grier
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action - which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate - then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Action
  • Idea
  • Ideal

• Tiamak closed his eyes to make a short prayer of thanks, hoping that the gods, like children, could be confirmed in good behavior by praise.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Good
  • Children
  • Eyes

• And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!

  

  Bob Colacello
  • She
  • Words
  • Friend

• I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

  

  Dawn French