Bruce Catton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
-
I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
-
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
-
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
-
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
-
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
-
I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
-
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
-
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
-
People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
-
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
-
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
-
I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
-
Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
-
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
-
No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
-
I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
-
I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent.
-
Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.
-
I'm a little bit sillier than past Cinderellas... at least, I am so far. But it's only the second day into rehearsal!
-
It was a place to bless God in and cease from vain words.
-
Early youth is a baffling time.
