Brie Larson (Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers) Quotes

As much as I love acting, I just want to be a healthy person.

Brie Larson

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• Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Society

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Great
  • Success
  • Trapped

• My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • World
  • Surprise

• It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Good
  • Great
  • Me

• The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • King
  • White

• I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Good
  • Always

• I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy or awkward or self-conscious.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Children
  • Why
  • Celebrate

• I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • School
  • Parents
  • Better

• Be the chief but never the lord.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Never
  • Leadership
  • Lord

• We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Real

• A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Hope
  • Die

• You see I've always been a fighter

  

  Jon Bon Jovi

• No one has ever accused me of being ambitious.

  

  Burt Shavitz

• I want to play against the best, and that's what I'm doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.

  

  Kawhi Leonard

• As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • School
  • Art
  • High

• I think in order to accomplish anything in life, you have to visualize yourself there - accepting the award, hearing your song on the radio, whatever it is - or you lose the willpower and the drive.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Life
  • Song

• To start your working life after you've graduated from school and university, it takes you a long time to get started in the real world. Today, kids are not out into the workforce until 27 or 30 years of age. By the time I was 30, I had six kids and 60 trucks.

  

  Lindsay Fox
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Future
  • Political

• For 338 paragraphs the Franks report painted a splendid picture, delineated the light and the shade, and the glowing colours in it, and when Franks got to paragraph 339 he got fed up with the canvas he was painting and chucked a bucket of whitewash over it.

  

  James Callaghan
  • Up
  • Light
  • Picture

• Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Band
  • Player
  • Fans

• Call it not paranoia, but caution.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman

• I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. However, most of my writing is influenced by mental health. I'm incredibly passionate about shedding light on the stigmas associated with mental illnesses.

  

  Anna Akana
  • Writing
  • Black
  • Light

• As much as I love acting, I just want to be a healthy person.

  

  Brie Larson