Vivien Leigh Quotes

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

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• God bless nannies.

  

  Laura Dern
  • God
  • Bless
  • God Bless

• I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Training
  • Hard

• Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • Important
  • Comedy
  • Editing

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Israel
  • Hatred
  • Decade

• 'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Therapy
  • Figure
  • Contemplating

• I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Morning

• Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Death
  • Day
  • Child

• When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Time
  • You
  • Team

• Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Why
  • Culture
  • Forever

• Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Power

• I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • History
  • English

• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Hard
  • Novel
  • Keep

• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Dark

• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Different
  • Lost

• So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Purpose
  • Ignorance
  • Torture

• Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love

  

  Kabir Helminski
  • Good
  • Important
  • Soul

• My parents got divorced when I was about ten years old, but I saw my mom go work two and three jobs to make sure we didn't miss a beat.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Mom

• My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Parent
  • Wanted
  • Delighted