Gemma Arterton Quotes

I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.

Gemma Arterton

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Change
  • Progress
  • Human

• 'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Giving
  • Community

• I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • People
  • Party
  • Serious

• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Way
  • End
  • Bubbles

• There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Daily

• I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • Teach
  • Exhausted

• The best part about poker is there's no down side.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Best
  • Down
  • Poker

• It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Know
  • Yourself

• I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Always
  • Challenges
  • Young

• AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Kind
  • Argument
  • Divine

• Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Artists
  • Incredible
  • Miller

• When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Family
  • Yourself
  • Successful

• It is important that the right of Israel to exist should be respected and also the viable Palestinian authorities, in terms of political and financial situation, be supported so that both can live side by side in peace and security. That is a two-state solution.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Important
  • Live
  • Political

• 'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Job

• I did every sport under the sun while growing up.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sun

• How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Future
  • Girl
  • Son

• A jumped-up little twerp and a prime candidate for exorcism

  

  Conrad Black
  • Up

• Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

  

  Bill Simmons
  • Writing
  • Golf

• I gravitated back to theatre again, and when I heard about this little independent movie called 'Lady Bird,' I thought, 'This will be a project where I can dip my toe back into the water.'

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Independent

• Geographically, Afghanistan is a good place for the terrorists, because it's surrounded by mountains, and there are lots of villages inside mountains, so it's easy for them to hide themselves, or to recruit the people. Whatever they want to do they will do.

  

  Najibullah Quraishi
  • People
  • Good
  • Mountain

• We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • School
  • Job
  • inspirational

• It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reverence
  • Holy Scripture
  • Madama Serenissima

• I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.

  

  Gemma Arterton