Gena Rowlands Quotes

I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.

Gena Rowlands

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• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Come
  • Radical
  • Libertarians

• I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Like
  • Things
  • Characters

• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Risk

• I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Character
  • Bad

• Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Platform

• When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Women
  • History

• I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Baby

• We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Music
  • School
  • Love

• There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel Boone,' and then, when that ended, I was still under 18, so I was too young to be in the older category and too old to be a child. So there was a few years there that were dry.

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • Time
  • Period
  • Child

• Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • God
  • Wife

• And the world's like a science And I'm like a secret And I saw you lingering still, still I saw you lingering still

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • World
  • Science

• I'm a songwriter first, have always been, and probably always will be. Making the demo is a natural product of writing a song; after that, I'm happy to hear other people do it in other ways.

  

  Carole King
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Understanding
  • Fire
  • Abuse

• Witch, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly
  • Devil

• To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

  

  Leon Max
  • Simple
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Time
  • Today
  • Lost

• How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

  

  James Fenton
  • Value
  • Drama

• It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Mind
  • Queen
  • Game Of Chess

• I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.

  

  Gena Rowlands