Syd (Sydney Loren Bennett) Quotes

Performing live was something that I had to really work at.

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• I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Film

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Said

• If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Respect

• You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Like
  • Point

• I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Effort
  • Eye

• Many of the environmentalists who moved into the environmental movement after Silent Spring ... detested pollution and craved purity. Absolute purity. They wanted to enforce zero tolerance on all environmental pollutants, not just on carcinogens. With friends like these the environment needs no enemies.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Friends
  • Environment
  • Spring

• Ambedkar is my Father in Economics. He is true celebrated champion of the underprivileged. He deserves more than what he has achieved today. However he was highly controversial figure in his home country,though it was not the reality. His contribution in the field of economics is marvelous and will be remembered forever..!

  

  Amartya Sen
  • Country
  • Home
  • True

• I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Job
  • Summer

• He could leap the corral,If he roseTo his full height;He could splinter the fencing light,With three blowsOf his porcelain hoofs in flight - If he chose.He could shatter his prison wall,Could escape them all - If he rose,If he chose.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Light
  • Wall
  • Rose

• It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Heart
  • Hair
  • Hug

• One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • People
  • Mother
  • Career

• It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Practice
  • Balance
  • Compassion

• That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Different
  • True

• We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.

  

  Bernard Ebbers
  • Strong
  • Growing
  • Growth

• Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Done
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Work
  • Win
  • Work Hard

• Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Live
  • Real
  • Faith

• If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Done

• Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Reading

• Performing live was something that I had to really work at.

  

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