George Blagden Quotes

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

George Blagden

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• When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Queen

• If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Job
  • Nice

• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Community
  • Writers
  • Colleagues

• What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Character
  • Yourself
  • Explore

• When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Me
  • Expectations

• I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Work
  • Love
  • White

• Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Country
  • Single
  • Justice

• The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Job
  • Computer

• I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Power
  • Blood
  • Cost

• I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Technology
  • Possibilities

• When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • May
  • You
  • Listen

• I write the best book that I can write each time.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Time
  • Book
  • Best

• I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kind

• I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Believe
  • School

• If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Trust
  • Friendship

• I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister....It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Celebration

• Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Capitalism

• Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Period

• When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Interesting
  • Space
  • Walking

• As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Character
  • Career
  • Myself

• Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

  

  Lynne Truss
  • Business
  • Together

• The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

  

  George Blagden