Michael Lehmann Quotes

In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

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• Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Home
  • Career
  • Education

• I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
  • Right

• The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Famous

• When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Purpose
  • Dance
  • Step

• Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • May
  • Cry
  • Milk

• I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Important
  • Myself

• I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Up
  • Through
  • Museums

• We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Important
  • Live

• In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Year
  • Two
  • Last

• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happiness
  • Own
  • Ready

• Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Very
  • Iran
  • Effective

• I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • People
  • Education
  • Health

• I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.

  

  Washed Out
  • Just
  • Normal
  • Unfortunately

• I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Reading
  • Philosophy
  • Cats

• People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • People
  • Good
  • Dance

• You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Reward
  • Professors

• There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Original

• I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Hurt
  • Effect
  • Terribly

• A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Opportunity
  • Nice
  • Crazy

• If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Job
  • Book
  • Career

• In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

  

  Michael Lehmann
  • Really
  • Could
  • Embarrassed