Donal Henahan Quotes

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

Donal Henahan

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• The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • You
  • Opportunities

• As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Know
  • Spring

• Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Get

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• In Chicago, they die for their teams.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Die
  • Chicago
  • Teams

• Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Family

• Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Politics
  • Exist
  • Well

• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Way
  • Funny

• It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Single

• At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Situation

• I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Friends

• To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

  

  Walter Scott
  • True
  • Honor
  • Perfection

• The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • Great
  • Love
  • Feel

• At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • People
  • Truth
  • Understand

• I finally learned from Fred Durst, who is of my generation, that 'selling out' means every ticket at The Forum got sold. I don't think Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera sit there agonizing over their record sales. The term 'sell out' needs to be eradicated from the language, because if you don't 'sell out,' guess what? An asshole will.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Sales
  • Asshole

• My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Character
  • Choices
  • Financial

• The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Adjust

• Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • World
  • Different
  • Book

• Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

  

  Joy Williams
  • Writers
  • Cave
  • Anchorites

• The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

  

  Donal Henahan