William Gibson Quotes

Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

William Gibson

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• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Think
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  • Myself

• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
  • Brave
  • Necessity
  • Even

• A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Justice

• When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Life
  • Confidence

• My characters hope for better lives.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Hope
  • Better
  • Characters

• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Think
  • Clothes

• We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Education
  • Place
  • Equal

• Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • City
  • Hands

• I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Never
  • Smart
  • Living

• I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Money
  • Never
  • Save

• People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• I'm a very lucky girl.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Girl
  • Lucky
  • Very

• Palestinian people are in love with life.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Life
  • Are

• There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Situation
  • Clock
  • Deadline

• I initially thought 'Lewis' was a terrible idea. The character had very much been Morse's work donkey and sounding board. But I was persuaded to do it, thinking if it was a flop, at least ITV would stop asking me. But the pilot took off, so we got back on this moving train, and we've never looked back.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Character
  • Moving

• I felt violated after certain scenes in the movie Stone. Lucetta is a tough character. The choices she makes, especially her sexual choices... it was hard for me to put myself out there like that.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Character
  • Scenes
  • Movie Stone

• Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

  

  William Gibson
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Giving