Estelle Quotes

I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?' and I'm like: 'No, I'm wide awake.'

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• The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Why
  • True
  • Free

• The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Wisdom
  • Gay

• It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Future
  • Me
  • Star

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Star
  • Really
  • Prince

• The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Like
  • Embrace
  • Graffiti

• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... walks out.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money

• History, geography and future bind us. Let no one separate us. Together, we can create pillars of mutual respect that will support the common good for generations to come.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Good
  • Together
  • History

• By study comes communion with the Lord in the Form most admired.

  

  Patanjali
  • Study

• If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Future
  • Past

• Italy: '...they are indeed a repulsive nation these dagoes, both the men and the women & I'm just longing to quit them for good & all !!!' (18 September 1918)

  

  Edward VIII
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• In L.A., I played with Joe Pass and Gabor Szabo. Mick Goodrick plays guitar in the Liberation Music Orchestra, and he's a real special player. Then I did a duet concert with Jim Hall at the 1990 Montreal Festival.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music
  • Real
  • Player

• I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

  

  Peer Steinbruck
  • Help

• A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

  

  Jean Renoir
  • Life
  • Movie

• When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• I'm not a racist.

  

  Donald Sterling

• I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Believe
  • Singing
  • Kindness

• I always wanted to be an actor. It's something I always secretly wanted. You know, I had the experience of being picked on as a child, and I would tell people, 'You're gonna be sorry when I'm famous!' And then I learned after they kicked the stuffing out me that you don't say that out loud.

  

  DJ Qualls
  • People
  • Experience
  • Famous

• As elsewhere in his writing, Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, Romeo and Juliet, the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Writing
  • Sorry

• The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Tea

• I look forward to being part of the ASUS family and its fascinating growth journey in India.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Family
  • Growth
  • Journey

• I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?' and I'm like: 'No, I'm wide awake.'

  

  Estelle
  • Sorry
  • Wake