Sean Scully Quotes

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

Sean Scully

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• In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • College
  • Beginning
  • Summer

• With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Country
  • Me

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Free
  • Problems

• I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Style
  • Feel
  • Inspiration

• Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Door
  • Wait
  • Elevator

• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Fortune

• Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Women
  • Shopping
  • Habits

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • World
  • Different
  • Connection

• As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Speak

• It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • Movies

• The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Universe

• I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Father
  • Universe
  • Ship

• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Everything
  • Difference
  • More

• My life changed completely. It's crazy now. It's kind of gone from striving and wondering and being confused and being lost to just feeling like the most blessed person in the world - just happy to wake up every day, happy to get on a plane every time. Just couldn't be happier with life, really.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• At no moment do I know what I’m talking about, nor of whom, nor of where, nor how, nor why, but I could employ fifty wretches for this sinister operation and still be short of the fifty-first, to close the circuit, that I know, without knowing what it means.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Why

• My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was four. And she was re-diagnosed when I was seven or eight, and again when I was 13, and my dad was very unhealthy, too. I was living on the edge of mortality my entire childhood.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • She
  • Dad
  • Mom

• If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Never
  • Capable
  • Cricket

• It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • Moving

• I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

  

  Sean Scully
  • Music
  • Childhood
  • Painting