K. J. Bishop Quotes

I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday.

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• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Flow

• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Work
  • America
  • Weird

• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Hair
  • Assets
  • Accent

• Words are but the signs of ideas.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Miracle
  • Kid
  • Take

• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Expect
  • Popularity

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Real
  • May
  • Small

• I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Work
  • Wall
  • Because

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Selling

• Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.

  

  Barack Obama
  • She
  • Pretty

• I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart

• When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of what dialogue should sound like. It was punchy and raw and repetitive, bursting with dynamic. I remember that switching on a lot of lights for me.

  

  Anthony McCarten
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Body
  • Stuff
  • Handle

• When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Different

• I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday.

  

  K. J. Bishop
  • Men
  • Different
  • Yesterday