Caitlin Moran Quotes

I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.

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• I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Think
  • Better
  • Politicians

• We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • Way
  • Islam

• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Creative
  • More

• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Think
  • Marriage

• I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Real
  • Think
  • Career

• I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Things
  • Learned

• I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • Think
  • Hand

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Creativity

• I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Know
  • Me

• Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Think
  • Intelligence
  • Her

• It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Future
  • Think
  • Dream

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Brand

• You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Relationship
  • Trust
  • Doing

• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Take

• I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Attention

• We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.

  

  R. A. Lafferty
  • Time
  • Long
  • Death

• A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

  

  Ismail Merchant
  • Culture
  • Film
  • Feels

• I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Doing