Sarah Waters Quotes

It's a curious, wanting thing.

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• I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Up
  • Country
  • House

• 'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Sexy

• The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Science
  • End
  • Theory

• Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Animal

• What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Man

• All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Comedy
  • Mirror
  • Films

• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Souls
  • Corporations
  • Treason

• You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • You
  • Win
  • Fat

• Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Time
  • Always
  • Preacher

• I'm used to being a small part of a massive production.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Small
  • Being
  • Production

• I am not as simple as I look.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Simple
  • Look

• You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Time
  • Process

• Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Always
  • Changing
  • Momentum

• It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Difficult
  • Skill
  • Obsession

• I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves because they made it easy to connect to the Internet. That was the single biggest innovation of AOL; when grandmas were signing up, AOL had arrived.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Small

• On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • School
  • Girl
  • Friend

• I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• Without Allah on your side, you can do nothing. With Allah on your side, there is nothing you cannot do.

  

  Boonaa Mohammed
  • Side
  • Allah

• Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Successful

• Venus Williams has an amazing line; I love her collection. I'm always at her office. She has an interior design company and her EleVen company. They have a wonderful office space and I'm always there for the interior part and get to see what she's doing with EleVen.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Design
  • Company
  • Wonderful

• It's a curious, wanting thing.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Curious
  • Wanting