Evelyn Glennie Quotes

I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

Evelyn Glennie

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• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Want
  • Understand

• Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Girl

• You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Time
  • Great
  • You

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Describe

• When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

  

  Mal Peet
  • American
  • Always
  • Crime

• Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • More
  • Seems
  • Extreme

• All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Want
  • Risk

• In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Single

• Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Movie

• I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.

  

  David Alpay
  • Famous

• Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Work
  • Women

• No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

  

  Amanda Hale
  • Trying
  • Journey
  • Explore

• It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

  

  Eric Bristow
  • Nice
  • Wish
  • Jump

• Prayer is a method practised from ancient days, so it's very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people, gladiators would do years ago, so we're just maintaining that routine.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • People
  • Important
  • Spiritual

• While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.

  

  Kathleen Troia McFarland

• I think the first CD I actually went into a store to pick out myself was a Good Charlotte album... I went through a tomboy punk phase in the fourth grade.

  

  Aubrey Peeples
  • Good

• Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
  • Future
  • Pretty
  • Teen

• The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before going in with Larry Holmes. That would have made all the difference.

  

  Gerry Cooney
  • Want
  • Regret
  • Fights

• I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Ability

• I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Plant
  • Embrace