Michael Tolkin Quotes

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.

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• Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Film

• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Never
  • Look
  • Orange

• No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Never
  • Matter
  • Grass

• Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Business
  • Dying

• I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Gold

• I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Book
  • Pictures
  • Sleeping

• With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Time
  • Music
  • Together

• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Attention

• In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Great

• HMS Surprise (1973)

  

  Patrick O'Brian

• The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that’s how it should be.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • People
  • Strong
  • Moments

• God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Good
  • God

• I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Work

• I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Music
  • Dance

• I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Life
  • Inspired

• President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

• When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

  

  Ken Livingstone

• Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who can build a parallel universe that's so big and clearly defined that the mainstream finally has to pay attention.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Attention
  • Artists
  • Radio

• I would never want to disrespect my beliefs. There are certain, obviously different, areas you wouldn't go. It's not congruent to who I am as a person, and it would be insincere, and it wouldn't be based on truth.

  

  Riaad Moosa
  • Different
  • Certain
  • Would

• Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Process

• I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Work
  • Respect

• I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.

  

  Michael Tolkin
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