Serinda Swan Quotes

I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.

Serinda Swan

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• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Women
  • Live
  • She

• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Love
  • Change
  • Team

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Stupid
  • Popular

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Wonder
  • Film

• I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Change
  • Grow

• I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fight
  • Liberty
  • Terrorism

• Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Absurd

• I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • True
  • Know
  • Uniform

• A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Eyes

• I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Lying

• It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today

• The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Men

• Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Words

• Unlike every other other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • World

• I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • God
  • Thoughts

• Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.

  

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
  • Earth
  • Forever
  • Humanity

• I went to New York for a while before I moved to L.A., and I was very clear that I didn't want to do TV. For a decade, basically, I didn't even entertain the idea.

  

  Martin Henderson

• What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Up

• A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.

  

  H. Ned Seelye
  • Culture
  • Learning
  • Groups

• I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.

  

  Serinda Swan
  • Culture
  • Color
  • Dresses