Emilia Wickstead Quotes

What's exciting for me is to make sure that people do still dress up - how do we do that in this fast-paced modern world, when we're all on the move and all so busy?

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• If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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  • Character
  • Book

• Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Care
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• I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Ride

• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Like
  • Something
  • Say

• To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Brother

• What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Small
  • Space

• I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
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  • Great
  • Mom

• We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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  • Country
  • Education

• Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Important
  • Giving

• People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

  

  Daniel Ek
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  • Music

• The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Business
  • Guy

• It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

  

  Harold Prince
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  • You
  • Nice

• Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • See
  • Compassion

• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Character
  • Judge

• There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

  

  John M. Ford
  • People
  • Believe
  • Respect

• Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • People
  • Nature
  • Law

• The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Time

• I am just too much.

  

  Joan Crawford

• In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder. Reserved, shy, but full of significance, it hid whatever it might hold behind a veil, keeping it till the hour should come, and, with the hour, those who were called and chosen.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
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• What's exciting for me is to make sure that people do still dress up - how do we do that in this fast-paced modern world, when we're all on the move and all so busy?

  

  Emilia Wickstead
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  • World