Ian Astbury Quotes

I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really.

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• My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • She
  • Style

• Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Mind
  • Sound
  • Laughter

• I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • Down
  • Bring

• I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Thought
  • Just
  • Phenomenal

• I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Help
  • Vision

• I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Singing
  • Face

• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Woman
  • Looking

• World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • World
  • Country
  • Fun

• Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • You
  • Stop
  • Moving

• We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • Government
  • Need

• It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Balance
  • Friendship
  • Without

• The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Time
  • Say
  • Tour

• I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Need
  • Something
  • Mature

• People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Change
  • Result

• I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Never

• Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Always
  • Enjoy
  • Win

• Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Why
  • Ideas
  • Language

• Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mankind
  • Invented
  • Atomic Bomb

• Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Me
  • Never
  • Jail

• Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Science
  • Mathematics
  • Capable

• I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Stage
  • Mainstream
  • Staying