Tilda Swinton Quotes

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

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• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Always
  • Creation
  • Shame

• It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Dangerous
  • Principles

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.

  

  Dan Pink
  • School
  • Law
  • Class

• South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Small
  • Bitter
  • Africa

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• My first priority is trying to protect my family.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • First
  • Priority

• In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • School
  • Character
  • Law

• If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Values
  • Act
  • Be Prepared

• If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Doing

• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Win
  • Born
  • Plan

• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Sun

• Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Song
  • Words
  • Know

• The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • World
  • Hope

• Nothing wrong with making money.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Money
  • Nothing
  • Making Money

• In 1967, I had formed a collaboration with Hermann Eggerer, then of Muenchen, and together, we solved the problem of the 'asymmetric methyl group' and applied the solution in some of the many ways that have proved possible.

  

  John Cornforth
  • Together
  • Collaboration

• To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Changes
  • Knight
  • Bishop

• When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Men
  • Community

• Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Practice
  • Fatherhood

• The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Collaboration
  • Whole
  • Filmmaker