Dorothy Atkinson Quotes

If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited.

Dorothy Atkinson

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• Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Boy
  • Blood
  • Texas

• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Trying
  • You
  • Story

• Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Passion
  • Singing
  • I Can

• To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.

  

  Halima Aden
  • World
  • Work
  • Home

• I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • World
  • Country
  • Money

• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Bad
  • Excuses

• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Love
  • Kids

• Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Manager

• We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Want
  • Know
  • Husband

• Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Decisions
  • Legal

• I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Talk
  • Hide

• A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Growth

• I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.

  

  K. Flay
  • Nice
  • Chicago
  • Memory

• If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Say

• On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Perspective

• I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Write
  • Piano
  • Software

• I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Experience

• There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • People

• Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.

  

  Richard Nelson Bolles
  • Weekend
  • Motto

• If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited.

  

  Dorothy Atkinson