Ada Leverson Quotes

Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

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• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • World
  • Bad
  • Mother

• Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Live
  • Want
  • Wall

• I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Art
  • Feel
  • Body

• Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Something
  • Vulgarity

• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Guys
  • Serial
  • Monogamist

• The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Career
  • Amazing
  • Direction

• Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Chaos

• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Sister

• My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Women
  • She
  • Childhood

• Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • People
  • Political

• My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Parents
  • Tears
  • Teenager

• I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

  

  Rita Ora

• In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

  

  Mary Grandpre
  • Wonder
  • Unknown

• The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Good
  • Heart
  • May

• I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.

  

  Kimberly Quinn
  • Family
  • Moral
  • Perception

• I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Look
  • Successful

• I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

  

  Lily Collins
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People
  • Country
  • Smart

• I like to work with people of different cultures, different points of view. But yeah, I feel much more comfortable. That's the problem I sometimes have with going to Hollywood. I feel like they don't share the same values as I do. They aren't interested in the same things. It's not always true, but sometimes, I feel it deeply, because as an industry, they celebrate things that I'm less interested in, and it's all about the business.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Different
  • Culture

• Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

  

  Ada Leverson
  • People
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