Alan Sillitoe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
-
It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
-
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
-
Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
-
In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
-
I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
-
In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
-
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
-
When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
-
I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.
-
I try to work on all aspects of my game, whether it be run, pass. I think you can never stop growing, and I definitely take that mindset. You've just got to keep on grinding.
-
There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.
-
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
-
If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.
-
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
-
I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.
-
Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.
-
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
-
I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.
-
I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.
-
I've been able to reinvent myself and to keep an audience going at whatever age. This is terrific. I mean, how many actors get that chance?
-
Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.
