Brenda Blethyn Quotes

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

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• Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Death
  • Goal

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Self
  • Just
  • Some

• I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Done
  • End
  • Realize

• The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Best
  • Successful
  • Worst

• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Down
  • Build
  • Carpenter

• Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Road
  • Yourself
  • Take Care

• Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • You
  • Write
  • Original

• There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Believing
  • Liberal

• When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • You
  • Easy
  • Bored

• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Song
  • Happiness
  • Very

• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • True
  • Best
  • Optimist

• I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movies
  • Said
  • Fiction

• When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Different
  • Art

• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

  

  E. B. White
  • Fall
  • Act
  • Circus

• Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Trust
  • Back
  • Going

• It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Great
  • She
  • Girl

• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • You
  • Best
  • Changes

• No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Life
  • World
  • She

• I discovered and fell in love with skiing long before I started to climb. Skiing was really my first calling. As a kid, I grew up skiing in jeans in Minnesota.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Up
  • Long
  • Skiing

• Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Band
  • Sometimes
  • Singing

• I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Good
  • Work
  • Live

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

  

  Brenda Blethyn
  • Good
  • School
  • Training