Alexandra Potter Quotes

But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.

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• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Black
  • Blue

• I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Reading

• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Day
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Long
  • Down

• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Trees

• As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Literature
  • More

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Radio
  • Go

• People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Religion
  • Name

• People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Nonfiction

• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • You
  • Talk

• I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Planning

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Freedom
  • Modern
  • Doors

• One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Doing

• Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Ambition
  • Bird
  • Intelligence

• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wonder

• A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.

  

  Ray Stannard Baker
  • Restaurants
  • Refused
  • Hotels

• I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Want
  • Know
  • Learn

• Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Air
  • Old
  • Dress

• It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn't even just acting. It was this medium, film. I had to explore it.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • Explore

• I have never been much of a follower although I like to learn.

  

  Barry Moltz
  • Learn
  • Follower

• But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.

  

  Alexandra Potter
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