Kate Adie Quotes

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

Kate Adie

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Work
  • God
  • Sleep

• I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Interesting

• To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Different
  • War
  • Change

• For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Long
  • Book
  • Favorite

• I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Different
  • Myself

• I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Luck

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Way
  • Books

• Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Animals
  • Planet
  • Companions

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
  • Europe
  • Improve

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Day

• Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Heart
  • Power
  • America

• When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.

  

  Akhil Sharma
  • Life
  • Family

• The older I get, the more and more I notice I'm like my father. It's funny, because when I was younger I tried to just back away from my father as much as I could, and some of the philosophies, some of the life lessons, some of the beliefs that he had within me are always constantly ongoing, and they're always prevalent in my life, whether it's trying to be every single thing that I can be in my sport or life or relationship or business, whatever avenue I'm pursuing.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Business

• To me, fear of the future means fear of technology. I have a little bit of that. I still use it, but I kind of see technology as this harmful thing that's so ingrained in my life that it sort of dictates and controls my relationship with it.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Life
  • Future
  • Fear

• I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Short