Gelett Burgess Quotes

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Gelett Burgess

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• I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Actor

• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Period

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Different
  • Single
  • New

• Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shoes

• It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Inspiration

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Children

• I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Seem

• You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Good
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Job
  • Career
  • Beginning

• I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Interesting

• Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Me
  • Comedy
  • Feel

• I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Try

• It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Real
  • Working
  • Honest

• As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Team
  • Successful

• This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

  

  James L. Buckley
  • Ambition

• And it is not knowable if force will be used, but if it is to be used, it is not knowable how long that conflict would last. It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Long
  • Doubt

• I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Men
  • Eating
  • Dinner

• I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Support
  • Blessed
  • Thanks

• A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

  

  Gelett Burgess