Jacqueline de Ribes Quotes

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

Jacqueline de Ribes

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• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• 'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Want
  • Child

• To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • Decisions

• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • Opinion
  • Policy

• Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Market
  • Other

• I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Model
  • Inspiration

• My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • People
  • Husband
  • Difference

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Want
  • Just
  • Girlfriend

• When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Truth
  • History
  • Story

• I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
  • Want
  • Thought

• Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Book
  • Picture
  • Memories

• Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Think
  • Space

• I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Environment

• I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.

  

  Clint Hill
  • Great
  • Family
  • Childhood

• Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Writing
  • War
  • Career

• My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

  

  Jacqueline de Ribes
  • Childhood