Natalie Cook (Natalie Louise Cook) Quotes

Some people say they want things, but when push comes to shove they don't do what is necessary to achieve it.

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• It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Writing
  • Independent
  • Speaking

• There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • May
  • War
  • Attention

• So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Art
  • America
  • High

• I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Christian

• If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Change
  • Marriage

• Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Talent
  • Big
  • Lips

• I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Dream

• I'm anti-cheese in a salad.

  

  Larry David
  • Salad

• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Film
  • Right
  • Timing

• America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • America
  • Political
  • Struggle

• It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Risk

• You probably can't use the term `toxic cunt' in your magazine, but that's what Hilary Clinton is. Her very existence insults the spirit of individualism in this country. This bitch is nothing but a two-bit whore for Fidel Castro.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Country

• The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

  

  W. H. Auden

• What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • People

• I don't like everybody who I see on TV.

  

  Ellen Pompeo

• As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Love
  • Fall

• Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Children
  • Help

• I've been in crisis situations, I've been down, I've been hurt, I've been behind on the scorecards, and I've had to pull that shot out to knock somebody out. I've been in all kinds of situations and still come out on top.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • Hurt

• Some people say they want things, but when push comes to shove they don't do what is necessary to achieve it.

  

  Natalie Cook
  • People
  • Achieve