Gelett Burgess Quotes

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

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• I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Disease
  • Sensitive

• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Science
  • Problems

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Never
  • Story
  • Dreams

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Heroism

• I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Nervous

• 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

• Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Library
  • Stand
  • Brick

• There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Broken
  • Wine
  • Drunk

• I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Love
  • True

• When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Work
  • May
  • Taken

• I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Thought
  • Lose
  • Speech

• I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Couple
  • Loved
  • Follow

• And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Good
  • Words

• What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Plan

• When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
  • Like
  • Market

• In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Interesting

• Everyday when you wake up, create the intention and then commit to making it your best day ever. Seriously. Do it.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Up
  • Everyday

• No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• How can I just go and sit in the library or somewhere and twiddle my thumbs, knowing what's going to happen? I don't intend to do that, I promise you.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Promise
  • Library

• To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

  

  Gelett Burgess
  • Life
  • Serious