Jane Campion Quotes

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

Jane Campion

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• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Character
  • Think

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Serious
  • Forget
  • Will

• There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Poverty
  • Scary
  • India

• The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Serious
  • Architecture
  • Obstacles

• For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • She
  • Girl

• No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Trying
  • Internet
  • Battle

• I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Band
  • Worst

• The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Done
  • Fashion

• When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Family
  • Energy
  • Week

• I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Play
  • Sports

• There are jobs that come along in your life, if you're lucky enough, that elevate you in a considerable way. And 'Homeland' was definitely one of those jobs.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • You
  • Lucky

• I do wish to emphasize that in light of the Alibaba deal, Youku Tudou management will remain independent, and we will continue to be open to opportunities for cooperation with other strategic partners going forward.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Light
  • Wish
  • Independent

• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Luck

• I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • People
  • Good
  • Death

• Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

  

  Karen O
  • Difficult
  • Really
  • Records

• Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Places
  • Outsiders

• It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Long
  • Record
  • Release

• In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.

  

  Bill Henson
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Photograph

• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

  

  Wayne LaPierre
  • Important
  • Control
  • Firearms

• I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

  

  John Cleese
  • Up
  • America
  • Small

• I've got a bike in the lounge that I watch Coronation Street on. I never had to watch my weight until I had the children, but with the bike, I'm fine.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Children
  • Bike

• I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

  

  Jane Campion