Evelyn Glennie Quotes

I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.

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• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Work
  • Think
  • Travel

• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Stillness

• My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Small
  • Hate
  • Running

• You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Progress
  • Try

• Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Latin
  • Doors

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Men
  • Family
  • Guy

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Walking
  • Creative
  • Process

• My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • World
  • Great
  • Me

• The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Always
  • Place
  • Class

• I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Science

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffering
  • Human
  • Angels

• I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

  

  J. Cole
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Same

• Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but their record of good works cannot excuse their harassment of women.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Work
  • Song
  • Listening

• Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.

  

  John Kendrick Bangs
  • Way
  • Nuts
  • Moonlight

• Honestly, Im living my fantasy. Its being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.

  

  Meredith Vieira
  • Family
  • Games
  • Fantasy

• I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Work
  • Job
  • Travel