Thandie Newton (Melanie Thandiwe) Quotes

Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying to figure out how to live with each other, billions of each other, only we're not living with each other our crazy selves are living with each other, and perpetuating an epidemic of disconnection.

Thandie Newton

• Things
• Oneness
• Disconnection
• Perpetuating

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• I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Romantic
  • Wonderful
  • Bike

• The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Life
  • Important
  • Sports

• There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Time
  • Progress
  • New

• We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Excellence

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Language

• In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Enemy
  • Moment
  • Understand

• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Great
  • Job
  • Think

• I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Music
  • Art
  • Day

• I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • People
  • Good
  • Interesting

• I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Me
  • Film
  • Magic

• It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Real
  • Want

• Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Fall
  • Heaven
  • Gifts

• Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Amazing
  • Impossible
  • White

• And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Science
  • Ocean
  • Fish

• When you're thinking about building your own online dating profile, especially on OkCupid, you should go through the same steps you're thinking about when you're going out to meet someone new. You want to put your best foot forward.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Same

• So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy for all people." That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.

  

  Walter Wangerin
  • People
  • World
  • Population

• I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

  

  Harry Lloyd
  • Moments
  • Things

• Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying to figure out how to live with each other, billions of each other, only we're not living with each other our crazy selves are living with each other, and perpetuating an epidemic of disconnection.

  

  Thandie Newton
  • Things
  • Oneness
  • Disconnection