John Hope Quotes
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
Quotes to Explore
-
We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
-
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
-
I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
-
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
-
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
-
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
-
There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
-
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
-
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
-
It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
-
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
-
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
-
The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
-
To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
-
In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
-
We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
-
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
-
Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
-
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
-
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
-
He 'the male' is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.
-
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
-
For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
-
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
