Emma Watson Quotes

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

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• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
  • Values
  • Talking

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Best

• What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Game
  • New York
  • Media

• A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Life
  • Come

• The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Long
  • Writing

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I don't think I should be telling you every 10 minutes what to think. I like to leave the audience alone with the magic. I tend to trust the material, or I don't do it.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Alone
  • Trust
  • Magic

• I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Mean
  • Years
  • Friendships

• Our policy is not to discourage the private sector, but to see that Air India plays the role of flagship in the industry. In the transport sector, Air India is the 'fate of India' and all efforts will be made to restore its past glory.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • Past
  • Air
  • See

• I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Commitment

• It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Company
  • Will
  • Useful

• If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

• To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Good
  • Mind

• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• I wanted to be the Six Million Dollar Man as a child. I learned how to raise each eyebrow independently, just like Lee Majors.

  

  Jason Winston George

• Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Book
  • Always
  • Nose

• Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets.

  

  John Gay
  • May
  • Lost
  • Fly

• But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Defense
  • Nightshirts

• I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

  

  Emma Watson