Dylan Thomas Quotes

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

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• I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Country
  • Family
  • Business

• I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • New York
  • Paris

• Dancing has always been a passion of mine.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Mine

• I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Giving

• When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Situation

• The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • America
  • Idea
  • Newborn

• I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Why

• I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Character
  • Dying
  • Lead

• In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• There's a huge impact on national security and intelligence. The new normal is going to be more and more of these hacks, whether it's Target or Home Depot or the Office of Personnel Management or Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Home
  • Management
  • Intelligence

• I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Way

• I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Star

• My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Early
  • Museums
  • Costume

• I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

  

  Warren Farrell

• I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats.

  

  Kevin Chamberlin
  • Art
  • History

• The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.

  

  Brian Simo
  • Success
  • Failure

• The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Revolution

• Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.

  

  Mike Krieger
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Before

• There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

  

  Dylan Thomas