Jodie Whittaker Quotes

You will not get me in one second of an interview criticising another actress for a phenomenal performance.

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• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Design

• Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Therapy

• In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Feel
  • Talking
  • Colleagues

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Why
  • Influence

• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Taken
  • New

• The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Important
  • Change
  • Example

• It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • You
  • March
  • Forward

• People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Blessing
  • Dalai Lama

• Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Myself
  • More
  • Now

• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Birth

• The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Job
  • Day
  • Universe

• How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Why
  • She
  • Decision

• Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Art
  • Political
  • Stop

• Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Sorry

• In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Thinking
  • Society

• 'Everybody thinks they want to see the truth,' said Tenkswa-Tawa. 'That’s one of the lies we tell ourselves.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Truth
  • Lies

• Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Guy

• One day Eugène Boudin said to me, '..appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky'. I took his advice and together we went on long outings during which I painted constantly from nature. This was how I came to understand nature and learned to love it passionately.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Long
  • Together
  • Nature

• If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner with? Probably not.

  

  Bryant Gumbel
  • People

• It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Value

• In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Car

• You will not get me in one second of an interview criticising another actress for a phenomenal performance.

  

  Jodie Whittaker