Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

Harry Dean Stanton

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• I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Hollywood

• My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Heroes

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Fear
  • Half
  • Satan

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Work
  • Night
  • Day

• My father is my inspiration.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Inspiration

• I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Different
  • Business

• If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Night
  • Will

• I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Child
  • Walking

• But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Time
  • Wisdom

• Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to do something differently or how to improve.

  

  Alan Zweibel

• If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • Time
  • Good

• Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be 'Stands in Confusion'.

  

  Caroline Lawrence

• Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

  

  Mary Schmich
  • Women
  • Age

• I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Children
  • Team

• My best mates when I was 19 were all in their 30s. I used to go to all their house parties, and they were crazier than the guys who were 17, 18. They were so much more liberated than the people who were apparently shackle-free.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • People
  • House
  • Free

• There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • People
  • Business
  • Interesting

• In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Time
  • Today

• It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

  

  Anthony Hecht
  • Children

• The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • People
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