Anna Meredith Quotes

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

Anna Meredith

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• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Flowers

• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Night
  • Nice
  • Day

• I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Believe
  • Free

• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Things
  • Very
  • Well

• There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Career
  • Man

• The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Doing
  • Worst
  • Duty

• I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Emotional

• The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Body
  • Year

• When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Song
  • Knowing

• I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Up
  • Me
  • Artist

• I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Time
  • Stronger
  • Treasure

• I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Empathy

• I'm not a guy that ever got in a fight on the street and with the public and everybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Guy
  • Fight
  • Street

• I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Down

• I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Hope

• I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Dream
  • Hate
  • Movies

• I don't mind how good or bad my partner is, as long as we have a lovely time.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Life
  • She
  • Career

• Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

  

  Frank Gifford
  • Football

• I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

  

  John McCain
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Music
  • Space
  • Rest

• Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

  

  Anna Meredith
  • Music
  • Performances
  • Reaction