Yul Brynner Quotes

Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

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• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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  • Think
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• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
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• Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • Think
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• It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Dream
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• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Girl
  • Same
  • Lucky

• I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • World
  • Working
  • Recreate

• A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Good
  • Understand

• Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Question
  • End

• It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Build

• You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • You
  • Like
  • Act

• If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • House
  • Go
  • Out

• We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Green

• Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Necessary

• I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Want

• Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • World
  • Simple

• She was a woman who liked to be busy. If she needed something, she picked up the telephone and, link by link, put together the chain that led to her goal. She knew how to ask in such a way that saying no was impossible. And she crossed ideological borders confidently, she respected no hierarchies, she tracked down cleaning women, bureaucrats, industrialists, intellectuals, ministers, and she addressed all with cordial detachment, as if the favor she was about to ask she was in fact already doing for them.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Together
  • Woman
  • Borders

• 'Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.'

  

  Banksy
  • World
  • Sick

• Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Purpose
  • Care
  • Accomplish

• Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Simple
  • Woman
  • Feminity