Alan Gussow Quotes

We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

Alan Gussow

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• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Write
  • Create
  • Joke

• I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • I Can

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Truth

• As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Mom

• I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Thought

• For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Done
  • Art
  • Change

• I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Myself

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Know
  • Me
  • Play

• Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Why
  • Trust
  • Should

• In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Mind
  • Death

• I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Never
  • Hollywood
  • Packing

• 'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Brave

• It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Effort
  • Feel
  • Performance

• In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Past
  • Words

• I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• There is as much guidance in way that closes behind us as in way that opens up ahead of us. The opening may reveal our potentials while the closing may reveal our limits-two sides to the same coin, the coin called identity.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Up
  • May
  • Identity

• Love is my religion - I could die for it.

  

  John Keats
  • Die

• As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• At my back I hear the word-'homosexual'-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.

  

  John Cheever
  • World
  • Light
  • Ignorance

• Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

  

  Benjamin Walker
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

  

  Alan Gussow
  • Present
  • Places
  • Sights