Susan Blackmore (Susan Jane Blackmore) Quotes

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

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• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Work
  • Learn

• When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Funny

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Now

• I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Great
  • Science
  • Space

• I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Hope
  • House
  • Die

• I hyperventilate quite a lot.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Lot
  • Quite

• I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Science
  • Understand
  • I Can

• The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Friend
  • Communication
  • Best Friend

• As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Amazing

• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Love
  • Capable

• Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Me
  • Model
  • Successful

• I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Love
  • Change
  • Daily

• No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Heart
  • Deep
  • Speak

• Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Hope

• I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Children

• I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Laughter

• When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Part
  • Girls
  • Script

• I think the thing that makes Indiana basketball special is that they have incredible teams, both college teams and pro teams, and they're all about grit.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • College
  • Basketball
  • Grit

• You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Song
  • Problem
  • Rap

• I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Live

• If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

  

  Susan Blackmore
  • Live
  • Universe
  • Evolution