Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Quotes

It's important to be able to have representation for black queer women, because I feel like there's not much representation for them in the mainstream.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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• You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Story

• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Heart
  • Die

• English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Free

• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Know

• Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Ocean

• So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Sings

• When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • You
  • Buying

• Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

  

  Dale Turner
  • Mistake
  • Better
  • Test

• The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Country
  • Thought

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Always
  • Breakfast

• The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Work
  • Why
  • Job

• Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Business
  • Me
  • Performing

• Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Home
  • She

• Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Television
  • Invention

• Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Business
  • Everyone
  • Giant

• I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Made

• Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

  

  Arthur C. Nielsen
  • Business
  • Job

• I have this set-up at my house where I have one big movie theater screen that's 9 ft. by 16 ft. Then, I have nine 63-inch monitors around it; four on either side and one underneath. So I get all nine one o'clock games, and I can switch them onto the big screen. That's what I do on the Sundays during the season.

  

  John Madden
  • Up
  • Movie
  • House

• I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Hate
  • Mean

• I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • True
  • Write
  • Promise

• They're just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don't think that's a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you'd have to do it. And I'd want to do it.

  

  Craig T. Nelson

• It's important to be able to have representation for black queer women, because I feel like there's not much representation for them in the mainstream.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • Important
  • Women
  • Black