Susan Hampshire (Susan Lady Kulukundis) Quotes

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

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• Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • World
  • Gold
  • Race

• Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Positive

• It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Artist

• I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dress

• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Playing
  • Musical
  • Group

• Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Men
  • You
  • Liberty

• The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Life
  • Change

• I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good And Bad

• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Water

• I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Depression
  • Very

• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Humility

• Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Why
  • Always
  • Environmental

• I'm a historian in my own mind.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Mind
  • Own
  • My Own

• South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Literature
  • Prison

• Most geniuses are weird.

  

  T-Pain
  • Weird
  • Most
  • Geniuses

• When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

  

  Barry White
  • Heart
  • Know
  • Hand

• Philosophy was once considered science.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Once

• The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Power
  • Future

• Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Good
  • Home
  • Guy

• You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Simple

• For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'

  

  Joel Grey
  • Running
  • Chicago

• I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Happy

• We want to hear, we long to hear, “I screwed up. I will do my best to ensure that it will not happen again.” Most of us are not impressed when a leader offers the form of Kennedy’s admission without its essence, as in Ronald Reagan’s response to the Iran-Contra scandal, which may be summarized as “I didn’t do anything wrong myself, but it happened on my watch, so, well, I guess I’ll take responsibility.” That doesn’t cut it.

  

  Carol Tavris
  • Best
  • Happen
  • Hear

• Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

  

  Susan Hampshire
  • Happy
  • Star
  • Happen