Jacqueline du Pre Quotes

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

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• We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Care
  • Come
  • Maybe

• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • Different
  • History

• Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
  • Doing
  • Silver

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Radio
  • Go

• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Thought

• I owe it all to Jesus.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Jesus
  • Owe

• The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Country
  • See
  • System

• Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Business
  • Revolution
  • Modern

• I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dog

• It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Funny

• People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Successful
  • Gift

• Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fly

• The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Hurt
  • Economy
  • Taxes

• Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Training
  • Fight
  • Performance

• I hate to cook and love to eat.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Eat

• A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Eyes

• What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I feel with thought.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Feeling

• Some people are natural beauties, some have great style, but sometimes it comes from talent. Take Kate Winslet: I was listening to her speech at the Golden Globes. That woman has so much intensity. She's amazing to watch and to listen to. With some people, it can even be their voice that makes them attractive.

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
  • People
  • Great
  • She

• The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

  

  Andy Grove
  • People
  • Important
  • Environment

• It is crazy. It's our first kid, and all of a sudden, she identifies letters as what they are, and you go, 'This kid is a genius - she's obviously some sort of savant!'

  

  Max Greenfield
  • She
  • Crazy

• I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Sex

• Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

  

  Jacqueline du Pre