Rollo May Quotes

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• I'm an actress, not a pinup.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Best
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• I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Crying
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• As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
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• I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Play
  • Judge
  • Produce

• If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Same

• As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • People
  • Work
  • Crazy

• I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Lawyer

• I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Look
  • Own

• I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Words
  • Born

• Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Friend

• We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Want
  • Frustration

• For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Kids

• I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Movie

• Anybody can act good to be around when they are doing really well.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Good

• The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Home
  • Perfect

• I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

  

  Silas Weir Mitchell
  • Theater
  • Performances
  • Paid

• If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • Work
  • Passion

• The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Force
  • Virtues
  • Proportion

• When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Writing
  • Hurt
  • Easy

• Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

  

  Rollo May
  • Confused
  • Independence
  • Proportion