Garth Ennis Quotes

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

Garth Ennis

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• It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • You
  • Always

• I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Soul
  • Identity
  • Playing

• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola

• I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Real
  • Fear
  • Know

• For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Society

• I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Words

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • God
  • Why

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Help
  • Know
  • Daughter

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

  

  Lance Ito
  • American
  • Day
  • Value

• Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Music
  • Hand
  • Emotions

• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?

  

  e. e. cummings
  • People
  • Pretty
  • City

• In Washington, if someone disagrees with you, the problem must be your heart - you must be evil.

  

  Steve Southerland
  • Problem
  • Washington
  • Disagrees

• When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Sometimes

• I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all - whether it's fancy, cheap or, I'm ashamed to say, even if it's bad for the environment.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Bad
  • Hand
  • Fashion

• Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

  

  Dick York
  • Time
  • Theatre

• I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Writing
  • Hand
  • Doing