Heather Brooke Quotes

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

Heather Brooke

• Politics
• Falsity
• Crime reporter

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• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Green

• Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  

  Florence King
  • Feminism
  • Travels
  • Spinsterhood

• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Want
  • Food
  • Three

• I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Think
  • Career
  • Acting

• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Character
  • Opinion

• You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Remember
  • You
  • Forget

• There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sports

• My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • She
  • Happy

• A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Start

• Item numbers are not my cup of tea.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Tea
  • Numbers
  • Cup

• I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Movies

• I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Opportunity

• Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • New
  • Priority
  • Creating

• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Real
  • Strange
  • Be Real

• I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Human
  • Psychology

• Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • Culture
  • River

• I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Book
  • Help
  • Self

• The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

  

  Macy Gray
  • House
  • Deep
  • Red

• The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Accomplish

• Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Friendship
  • Human being
  • Virtues

• When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Power

• Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Mind
  • Artist
  • Sensitive

• When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Politics
  • Falsity
  • Crime reporter