Deborah Moggach Quotes

The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.

Deborah Moggach

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• I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Start

• To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • American
  • Speak
  • Honest

• Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • Responsibility
  • Find
  • Place

• We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Home

• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Song
  • Moments
  • Learn

• I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Think
  • Kid
  • India

• I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Secrets

• 'If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.' - Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Life
  • Men

• Every country and every culture has traditions that are unique and help make that country what it is. But just because something is a part of your past doesn’t make it right. It doesn’t mean that it defines your future. ... Just because something is a tradition doesn’t make it right.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Help
  • Future

• The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Important

• I always had a kind of Myth of Cincinnatus idea about politics - that public service was something you do for a while in between stints at real life. And when your time is up, you return to the plow, which is hopefully still somewhere close to where you left it.

  

  Angus King
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Decision
  • Emotional

• My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy.

  

  Kim Novak
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Lion

• We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.

  

  Bernice King
  • Business
  • Future
  • Faith

• Infrastructure investment can boost economic growth and employment, and, in fact, it is fiscally neutral.

  

  Lou Jiwei
  • Growth

• My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection - life is too short not have fun!

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Fun

• A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • People

• I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Sexy
  • Hopeless
  • Handsome

• War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and that’s all there is in it.

  

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
  • Real
  • Breakfast
  • Tables

• I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

  

  Carroll Shelby
  • Car
  • Celebrity
  • Airplane

• There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Car

• I've carried on, in that same tradition, with my kids. Aside from just his brilliance, in my estimation, I think he had one of the great imaginations of the 20th century. One of the reasons why the tradition carries on, all these years later, is because, as a parent, those are the books that you go to and pull off the shelf because they never stop delighting you.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Kids

• The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.

  

  Deborah Moggach