Jeff Lindsay Quotes

I do as much as I can. I even drive through the chase scenes several times to make sure the details are right.

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• In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• My health is fine.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Health
  • Fine

• When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Music
  • House

• Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Light

• There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Different
  • True
  • Picture

• My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Real
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Country
  • Hell
  • Go

• If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Mainstream
  • Then

• Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Everybody
  • Ridiculous
  • Hold

• A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Hate
  • Emotional
  • Leadership

• An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Home

• I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • School
  • Job
  • Parents

• I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Money
  • Charity
  • Institution

• English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Good
  • Great
  • School

• People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Think
  • Class

• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • True
  • Ideas
  • New

• It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Television

• Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

  

  Andrew Cohen
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Question

• I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading those papers, digging into that lively mishmash of opinion for drift, a sense of what to see, what to hear, what to read, etc. - and I'd like to think that scene's still vital, although I understand there's been a fair amount of conglomerating, which would seem to undercut its radical roots, its funky local flavor. I'd encourage any writer with an eye for life and an ear for prose to give it a try. You can work out your chops just fine in newsprint.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Culture

• I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Path

• All of us salute the ITU's excellent work in the telecommunications space. It has set standards which encourage investment in infrastructure and ensure that a call made from Europe or America connects smoothly in Kenya or anywhere in the world.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• I do as much as I can. I even drive through the chase scenes several times to make sure the details are right.

  

  Jeff Lindsay