Leslie Poles Hartley Quotes

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

Leslie Poles Hartley

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• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • She
  • Support

• I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Work
  • Same
  • Crew

• If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Chance
  • Understand
  • Boat

• It's always been hard trying to find the right pieces that go together, but it's always been something that interests me - finding new ways to be fashionable and cute but still being modest.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Cute

• I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Lost

• You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Trying

• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Words
  • Focus
  • Silence

• You're all I want! You're all I have! GO AWAY! .

  

  Alice Walker

• It's a drag not to have your own plane, man. That way, you could go where you wanna go when you wanna go.

  

  Duane Allman

• It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Home
  • Business

• I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

  

  Christopher Walken

• Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • Achievement

• I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

  

  Nelson DeMille
  • America
  • Fear

• No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

  

  James Caan
  • Death

• I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot of it, but that's the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • World
  • Game

• 'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Good
  • Live

• No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Me
  • Will
  • Consumers

• In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.

  

  John Buchanan Robinson
  • Community

• I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

  

  Jemima Kirke
  • Pride

• We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

  

  James Woods
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

  

  LZ Granderson
  • Important
  • College

• Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

  

  Leslie Poles Hartley