John Burdett Quotes

In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?

John Burdett

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• I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Good
  • Art
  • Preparation

• Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Yourself

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Happy
  • Girl

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • World
  • May

• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Good
  • Think
  • Look

• I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Career
  • Fashion
  • Chances

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Book
  • Me
  • Young

• Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Control

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Strategy
  • Filmmaking

• If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Music
  • Nature

• My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Talent
  • Big
  • Lips

• We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Fashion

• I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Probably

• In cases of rape, trying to prevent pregnancies is obviously the best thing. The morning-after pill works successfully most of the time. Ultimately we do better if we do have better education about family planning.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Family

• I disagree that an athlete can't be intelligent. Some people think that, in basketball, we have a bunch of masculine adults who don't know how to control themselves. They're feeble-minded and can't engage or articulate ideas. That's a narrative they keep trying to paint.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • People
  • Trying
  • Control

• In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?

  

  John Burdett
  • People
  • Life
  • Time