Etel Adnan Quotes

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• My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Light
  • Spirit

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Gay

• The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.

  

  Ian Rush
  • I Can
  • Cook
  • Welsh

• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Different
  • Hope

• We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Free
  • Bird

• I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.

  

  Alan Mak

• I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • People
  • School
  • Training

• Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Fire
  • Phoenix

• You cannot change strategy due to a trend.

  

  Marco Bizzarri

• My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • She
  • Mother
  • Model

• I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

  

  Mariel Hemingway
  • Believe
  • Pain

• I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • Hate
  • Sports

• We're all funny. Humor unites us.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Funny

• I feel happy when I look at my grandson, who is 10 months old. That relaxes me.

  

  Andrew Tan
  • Happy
  • Grandson

• Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

  

  Katori Hall

• Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Men
  • She
  • Angry

• I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

  

  Brian Welch
  • Money
  • Career
  • Daughter

• I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Thinking
  • Relationship
  • Meaningful

• I'm a product of my environment.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Environment
  • Product

• When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.

  

  Hayden Fry
  • Color
  • Wall
  • Games

• It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • Friends
  • Help

• Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?

  Etel Adnan
  • Color
  • Musician
  • Cover