Penelope Wilton Quotes

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

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• I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Mystery

• My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Day
  • Mom

• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movies
  • New Things

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Alone
  • Schizophrenia
  • Dining

• When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Good
  • Great
  • Character

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Know
  • Year
  • Now

• You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Good
  • Money
  • Never

• I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Care

• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Chicken

• Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Broken
  • Inside

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Information
  • Charge
  • Flow

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!

  

  Garth Davis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

  

  Jean O'Leary
  • Up
  • Different

• You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.

  

  John Corbett
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Family
  • Business
  • Together

• Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • History
  • Political
  • Literature

• You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Words

• I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

  

  Penelope Wilton
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