Estelle Quotes

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

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• The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Me

• I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Child

• When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.

  

  Sam Robards
  • People
  • Door
  • Identity

• They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Great
  • You
  • Couple

• Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Fun
  • Right
  • WIld

• I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • People
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Way
  • Trouble
  • Through

• Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Fire

• The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Worst
  • Cry

• Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Pain
  • Forever
  • Thought

• As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Model
  • Complex
  • Sophisticated

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Mean
  • Person

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Space
  • Idea

• The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Best
  • Successful
  • Worst

• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Atmosphere
  • Brains

• Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.

  

  William James
  • War
  • Youth
  • Unlearn

• For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Long
  • Years
  • Lasts

• I know every politician spins the truth a little.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Politician

• When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Eye
  • Green

• Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • People
  • Real
  • Hurt

• I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

  

  Estelle
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