Andrew Harvey Quotes

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

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• Fitzgerald was a modernist.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Fitzgerald
  • Modernist

• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War
  • End
  • Will

• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Business
  • Reading

• Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Control

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Person
  • Dust

• Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Popular

• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Happy
  • Question

• I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Mood

• Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • Way
  • Nothing

• It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Practice
  • Religion
  • Easy

• My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Grandmother
  • Birthday
  • Cards

• I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Vision
  • Run

• I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • History
  • See
  • Collaboration

• I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• 'Hook' was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up, so we played with that theme on the title 'Never Land.'

  

  Andy Mineo
  • Up
  • Growing

• It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pain
  • Things
  • Emancipation

• "The Prince Of Tides" is a lot about my mother - what my mother would do after Dad would hit one of the kids or hit two of the kids, hit all the kids, hit her, she would usually get in the car. We'd drive out. She would say, I'm going to divorce him. I'm never going back.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Dad

• [Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body. Inside myself I feel like this rich, complicated thing, and then I see representations of myself, especially in the media - and I think this is why it's troubling for me, because I feel so caricatured and flattened.

  

  Kalan Sherrard
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Character

• There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Ignore
  • Telling

• The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

  

  Andrew Harvey
  • Things
  • Growth
  • Avoid