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 the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Forever

• It seems like a gross waste of time to continue our career predicated on the idea that we're going to divide opinion. What's more important is just doing something that you love.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Brain

• The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Body
  • Dancing
  • Tour life

• 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