Andrew Forge Quotes

I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with a physical relationship with my surroundings, their weight, texture, density, transparency, and so forth.

Andrew Forge

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• I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Scary

• Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Life
  • American
  • Hope

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Walk
  • No Regrets

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • Things
  • Really

• Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • War
  • China

• For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Interesting
  • Human
  • Living

• Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Done
  • House

• I don't know if I'm a method actor.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Know
  • Actor
  • Method

• Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Never
  • Being
  • Lose

• I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • She
  • Girl
  • Go

• Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Afraid

• The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Science
  • Process
  • Interior

• You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Daily

• The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Music
  • Live
  • Real

• Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Success
  • Fear
  • Failure

• In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

  

  Boris Beizer
  • Kill
  • Programming
  • Specifications

• Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Sing
  • Tail

• I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Choices
  • Journey

• I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with a physical relationship with my surroundings, their weight, texture, density, transparency, and so forth.

  

  Andrew Forge
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Relationship