Philip Kerr Quotes

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

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• It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • American
  • Dream
  • Myself

• But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Desire
  • Reflection
  • Forgiveness

• I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Think
  • Way
  • Just

• Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Amazing
  • Cold
  • Bond

• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Me
  • Silence
  • Sword

• Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • Beauty
  • Performance

• I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Want
  • Black
  • Me

• If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Real
  • Want
  • See

• If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Moment
  • Talent
  • Glory

• I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Person
  • Worried
  • Conversations

• I have met with hundreds of young fashion designers, hundreds of fashion startups, hundreds of CEOs and business leaders. All I do is get to ask questions of professionals in the industry. I learn from every conversation. It is the best education I could have.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Business
  • Education
  • Fashion

• Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Look

• In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Earth
  • Sea
  • Ice

• To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • You
  • Enjoy

• I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Poverty
  • Talent
  • Genius

• All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Family
  • Water
  • Gypsies

• I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.

  

  Hanan Kattan
  • Film
  • Businesses

• When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heart
  • Heaven
  • Sorrow

• Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Words
  • Water
  • Fire

• When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

  

  Philip Kerr