Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

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• I'm very content.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Myself
  • Find

• I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Proud
  • Youth
  • Walk

• I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • War
  • Military
  • Slavery

• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • United States
  • Greatest

• An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Game
  • Artist

• Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Politics
  • Interested
  • Did

• I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Art
  • You

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I have an incredibly high metabolism.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • High
  • Incredibly
  • Metabolism

• Stop the traffic...let 'em through.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Stop
  • Traffic
  • Ems

• If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

  

  Barbara Greene
  • Story
  • Essay

• Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Sun

• Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
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  • Books
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