Matthew Bourne Quotes

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Matthew Bourne

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• I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Path

• If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Kind
  • Company
  • Employees

• You are the music while the music lasts.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Music
  • You
  • Lasts

• I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • Honest
  • Readers
  • Rely

• The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Safety

• I think quotes are very dangerous things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• Acting is a form of confusion.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Acting
  • Form
  • Confusion

• Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Marriage
  • Eye
  • Gay

• When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Style
  • Moving
  • Picture

• I'm a country girl at heart.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Girl

• My health is very good.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Good
  • Health
  • Very

• The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Experience
  • Law
  • Wisdom

• It doesn't hurt any of us to remember that Hollywood isn't at all impressed by anyone who has the fantastic illusion that the town must revolve around him.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Remember
  • Hurt

• In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• Quite recently, to his horror, he had realized he would have to get a job. He was therefore studying to become a barrister, in the hope that he would find some pleasure in keeping as many criminals as possible at large.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Job
  • Hope

• There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Children
  • Boy
  • Daughter

• Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.

  

  Luc Montagnier

• I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.

  

  William Gurstelle
  • Ideas
  • Overcoming

• Religion, like philosophy, is a living thing. If it isn’t allowed to change with the times, if it is left to calcify, it will surely become irrelevant.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Change
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.

  

  Dennis Lindley
  • Change
  • Consider
  • Debate

• Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

  

  Rumi
  • God
  • Speak
  • Listen

• Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

  

  Matthew Bourne