André Aciman Quotes

I began reluctantly to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future.

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• I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Types

• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Types

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Think
  • Balance

• Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Love
  • Doubt
  • Wait

• The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Life
  • Action
  • Spiritual

• No one person is an island.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Person
  • Island

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Wealth

• I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Great
  • Book
  • Feel

• I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Song

• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Believe
  • Say

• I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • Night
  • Die

• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Doubt

• Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Important
  • Beginning
  • Breathe

• What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Great
  • Character
  • Three

• We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Party

• While performing, I can't wear anything that I'm not going to be able to dance in or heels that don't have ankle support.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Support
  • Dance

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Way
  • Find
  • Get

• A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.

  

  Archibald Cox
  • Friends
  • High
  • Society

• The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy.

  

  T. B. H. Stenhouse
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Home

• I began reluctantly to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future.

  

  André Aciman
  • Future
  • Present
  • Steal