Brian Lumley Quotes

Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work.

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Consumption

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Mom
  • Doing
  • Seattle

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Cancer

• I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Good
  • Grateful

• Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Learn

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Up
  • Time
  • Career

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Me
  • Child
  • Acting

• The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Up
  • Better

• I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Work
  • Small

• In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the '90s are the best decade of my life. I've done the best work and, in a funny way, I'm enjoying the most success... more than in the '70s.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • People
  • Work
  • Fool

• I think my mom and dad have an incredible work ethic, and we've grown up around it.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• Einige werden posthum geboren.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work.

  

  Brian Lumley
  • Work