Joan Armatrading Quotes

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

Joan Armatrading

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• I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Doing

• I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Character
  • Understand
  • Felt

• Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Messy

• If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Time
  • You
  • Painting

• I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Always
  • Daydreaming

• I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Feel
  • Trick

• It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • People
  • History
  • Nice

• Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Great
  • Couple
  • Tired

• One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Singing
  • Mistakes
  • Gifts

• Despereaux did not know it, but he would need, very soon, to be brave himself.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Brave

• Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.

  

  Vanity

• Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Practice

• I thought: 'Gosh, it really has been worth the wait.' And I think had I gone with Evita, I probably wouldn't have been ready to deal with it. It was just the most perfect time to go with that particular show.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • Time
  • Perfect

• I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • World

• I think I've been through all the phases of the sport. I won, I lost, I got injured. Now I get to do what I love, with my truth, without worrying about what people will say or things like that.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • People
  • Truth
  • Lost

• My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Writing
  • Passion

• In Bollywood, we are told exactly what to do and how to do it and not to counter things by saying there's a better way. We make our actors feel important by paying them more. But the real deal is when you let the actors take some decisions on the sets.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Important
  • Real

• If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Work
  • Business
  • Bad

• Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life. I'm like that. I love it when people do really nice things around me, but I don't have time to do it for myself. It's very hard for me to even buy a new pair of trousers.

  

  John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Fastidious

• At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

  

  David Guterson
  • Freedom

• You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

  

  Joan Armatrading