Peter Mullan Quotes

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Peter Mullan

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• The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Country
  • Now

• Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • World
  • Logic
  • Internal

• Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Tree
  • Fruits
  • Branch

• The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome as associate members.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Professional
  • Organization
  • Welcome

• My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Famous
  • Fruit
  • Classmates

• I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Mayor
  • Kentucky

• I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.

  

  Edmund White
  • Long
  • She
  • Think

• He who labours, prays.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • He
  • Prays
  • Labours

• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Fear
  • Now

• I'm very pessimistic.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Very
  • Pessimistic

• You don't want to be too hot in the club. And ambience is important - no fog machines.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Important
  • Want
  • Fog

• My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

  

  Kate Millett
  • You
  • Sister
  • Said

• Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Guy

• When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • You

• I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Sex

• Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Art
  • Mother

• My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Name

• Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • People
  • Time
  • Unique

• I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.

  

  Katrina Kaif

• Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Study

• The next phase is to 2016, and yes, I want to be First Minister because I believe I have the life experience, and I've got a commitment to change.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Experience

• Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • True

• There comes a time in every man's life when he wakes up drunk on the toilet and begins to doubt the choices he has made. and when that time comes at least twice a day, every day. something needs to be done.

  

  Paul Neilan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Choices

• A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

  

  Peter Mullan