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

• I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • She
  • Power
  • Mom

• I definitely wasn't trying to disrespect Mo in any way, or the fans, as everybody is talking about. I've been here for 10 years, and to deliberately try to disrespect the fans, I would never try to do that in any way. I'm upset it came across that way.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • Way
  • Fans

• You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

  

  Peter Doig
  • Space
  • Air
  • Painting

• Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

  

  James Wolcott
  • American
  • Faith
  • Food

• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Control
  • Gun

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

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Painting
  • Comfort
  • Inspire