Brenda Blethyn Quotes

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

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• The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • House

• Justice is revenge.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Think
  • Know
  • Road

• Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Mind
  • Stress
  • Impossible

• I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Time
  • World
  • Love

• Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Learning

• Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Law
  • Opinion
  • Living

• The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Worst
  • Gone
  • ERA

• As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Media

• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Design
  • Meaning
  • Excited

• I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Universe
  • Story
  • Over

• The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • America
  • Now
  • Places

• I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • People
  • Happy
  • Doing

• The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • History
  • Organization

• The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Think
  • Man
  • Government

• For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Moving

• No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Light

• Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

  

  G. D. H. Cole
  • May

• When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I'm not really into serious programmes or documentaries.

  

  Amy Childs
  • Work
  • Long
  • Reality

• As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went a long way. Like cilantro.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • Long
  • History
  • Stop

• No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Men
  • Love
  • Old

• Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

  

  Brenda Blethyn