Hedy Lamarr Quotes

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Hedy Lamarr

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• The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Change

• There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • May
  • War
  • Attention

• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Politics
  • Easy
  • Gossip

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Cool

• Lawyer even sounds like liar.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Lawyer
  • Liar

• In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • America
  • Black

• A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye. For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Different
  • Real
  • May

• When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Forever

• Science is-or should be-the greenest force of all.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Science

• Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hair

• I expected results.

  

  Bernard Ebbers

• I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Time
  • Black
  • Culture

• Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.

  

  David Grann
  • Live
  • History

• I stay in contact with my castmates from 'Atlanta' almost every day.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry

• There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Picture

• It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Game
  • Team
  • Pressure

• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Heart
  • Fall
  • Taken

• Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Painting
  • Sculpture

• Where, where, are you tonight?Why did you leave me here all alone?I searched the world over, And thought I found true love.You met another and Pfft! you were gone.

  

  Buck Owens
  • World
  • Why
  • True

• I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

  

  David Campese
  • Course
  • Millionaire
  • Amateur

• A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Painting
  • Comfort
  • Inspire