Dulquer Salmaan Quotes

I am very instinctive. When I read a script, I think, 'Is this something I would want to watch?'

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• The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Youth

• There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Suffering
  • Color
  • Literature

• An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

  

  Ovid
  • Understand
  • Medicine

• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Athlete

• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Education
  • Cool
  • Jail

• It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Inspiration

• A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Genius

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Look
  • Memory
  • Activate

• I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Business
  • Career

• When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Pretty
  • Choice
  • New York

• I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Family
  • Lovely
  • Bahamas

• You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Work
  • High
  • You

• The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Knowledge
  • Light
  • Desire

• I love the Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Beatles

• While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

  

  Phoebe Robinson

• Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Right
  • Individual

• The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Human
  • Race
  • Extinction

• Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

  

  David Wain
  • Money
  • American
  • Lost

• The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

  

  David Almond
  • Important
  • Words

• I am very instinctive. When I read a script, I think, 'Is this something I would want to watch?'

  

  Dulquer Salmaan