Olivia De Havilland Quotes

I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.

Olivia De Havilland

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Help
  • House

• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Early

• I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Life
  • Game
  • Man

• A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Leader
  • Boss
  • Feared

• Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • School
  • Reason
  • Prison

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Long
  • Art
  • Strong

• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • World
  • Live
  • Write

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Challenge

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Remember

• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Love You
  • Shall

• I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Life
  • World
  • Future

• Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Real
  • Game
  • Action

• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • God
  • Real

• The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Standards

• We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Scary

• Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.

  

  Paula Danziger

• I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • People
  • World
  • Different