Emmanuelle Beart Quotes

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

Emmanuelle Beart

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• Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Want
  • Cold
  • Theatre

• My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Bored
  • motivation
  • Just

• I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Road
  • Thought

• I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

  

  Zendaya
  • Live
  • Me
  • Die

• I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • History

• I just want to continue the way I am going.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Way
  • Continue

• I don't care what other people are doing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Care
  • Doing

• If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • You
  • Earth
  • Moon

• I don’t pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn’t try to convince you that salt was sugar.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Mind

• To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Character
  • Soul

• It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • People
  • Desire

• Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mother
  • Fear
  • Safety

• Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great

• People say it's hard at the top, but it's even harder at the bottom.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People

• Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Destiny

• To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Men

• 'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Wish

• What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

  

  Joschka Fischer
  • World
  • Education

• This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Facts
  • Firsts

• Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

  

  Brad Holland
  • World
  • Wish
  • Violence

• I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart