Jane Campion Quotes

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Jane Campion

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• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Judge
  • Others
  • Ideals

• Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Career

• I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Myself

• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Story
  • Comfort

• Companies are hiring cosplayers to be promotional spokes models for them. There are cosplayers trying to develop a cult following even though they've only been cosplaying for less than a year or two. It's all about the social media or Facebook likes.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Trying
  • Year
  • Media

• I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Up
  • Family
  • Job

• I talk about everything. I'm like the person who comes home and can't hide anything. Even my friends sometimes are like, 'Kate, you've got to stop talking so much about your life.' And I'm like, 'Why?' I can't keep things in, really.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Why
  • Home

• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Age
  • Take
  • Tragic

• The economics establishment (universities, regulators, central bankers, government officials, various organisations staffed with economists) lost its legitimacy with the failure of the system. It is irresponsible and foolish to put our trust in the ability of such experts to get us out of this mess. Instead, find the smart people whose hands are clean.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Lost
  • Trust

• What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Knowledge
  • Beginning
  • Marriage

• By cultivating friendliness towards happiness and compassion towards misery, gladness towards virtue and indifference towards vice, the mind becomes pure.

  

  Patanjali
  • Mind
  • Compassion

• Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul Minnesota in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Mind
  • City
  • Poetry

• Sympathy is the surest destruction of selfishness. Children, like the grown person, grow the better for participation in the sufferings where their own only share is pity.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Children
  • Sympathy

• A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

  

  Prince
  • Eyes
  • Prince

• It must afford no small pleasure to a benevolent mind in the midst of a war, which daily makes so much havoc with the human species, to reflect, that the small-pox which once proved equally fatal to thousands, has been checked in its career, and in a great degree subdued by the practice of Inoculation.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Great
  • Mind
  • War

• I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• I lift weights. It's one of the reasons I get up so early.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Up

• One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.

  

  Matthew Hayden
  • Mind
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

  

  Alan Parker
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Vision

• I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.

  

  Chrissie Fit
  • Family
  • Singing

• I've been in television for a little bit, and when people are attracted to what you've created, you get very excited because of the numbers. The business side is very exciting.

  

  Lisa Ann Walter
  • People
  • Business

• Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Important
  • Power

• You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Die
  • Weeping

• When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

  

  Jane Campion