Sean Lennon Quotes
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
-
This town was built on nepotism.
-
I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
-
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
-
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
-
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
-
The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
-
People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
-
We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
-
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
-
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
-
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
-
I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
-
To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
-
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
-
I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
-
I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
-
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
-
You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
-
'The Blacklist' was really right place, right time. I read the script and met with Jon Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, John Fox and John Davis, and we just hit it off. They understood that I was not so much trying to adapt to television, but adapt a cinematic style to the things that we were gonna do.
-
The future depends on what we do in the present.
-
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
