Opal Tometi Quotes
I have three godkids that are just so gorgeous; I love them dearly, and they keep me going.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never use that word, retire.
-
In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
-
Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
-
We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
-
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
-
If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
-
I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
-
I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.
-
I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.
-
I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
-
Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
-
A man really determines himself by what he does.
-
Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.
-
If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
-
For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.
-
I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.
-
I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
-
I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
-
What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.
-
My mum always said I devoured 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' at the tender age of four, but frankly, I think that might be a touch of maternal exaggeration.
-
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
-
Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.
-
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
-
I have three godkids that are just so gorgeous; I love them dearly, and they keep me going.
