Jennifer Ehle Quotes

What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

Jennifer Ehle

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Work
  • Different
  • Long

• Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • You
  • Ask
  • Teammates

• On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Idea

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Work
  • Words

• Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Interesting
  • Picture
  • Museum

• The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Small

• Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

  

  Larry David
  • Man
  • Hair
  • Confident

• War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • War
  • Small
  • Luxury

• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Change
  • Only
  • Inevitable

• My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.

  

  Gary Owens
  • Comedy
  • Deep
  • Problems

• Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Moral
  • Humanitarian

• If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Power
  • Society
  • Test

• Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Real
  • Progress
  • Discipline

• Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.

  

  Livy

• I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

  

  James Brown
  • Why
  • Today
  • Facts

• A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

  

  William Kent
  • World
  • Feelings
  • Garden

• All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress other actors who say "Oh, God! what a shot, what camera work!" But the average person in the audience, who bought his ticket to be entertained, doesn't see that at all. He comes out depressed.

  

  Doris Day
  • Work
  • God
  • Opinion

• What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Garden