Imelda Staunton Quotes

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

Imelda Staunton

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• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Time
  • Weird
  • Stupid

• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Rich

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Laughter

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • You
  • Running
  • Look

• I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Believe
  • May
  • Circumstances

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
  • Write

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Love
  • Absorbed

• We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Balance
  • Ourselves
  • Optimize

• One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Enjoy
  • Company
  • Captain

• According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • New
  • Virtue
  • Ethics

• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Rise
  • Mental Illness

• Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Soul
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• O yonge fresshe folkes, he or she, In which that love up-groweth with your age, Repeyreth hoom fro worldly vanitee, And of your herte up-casteth the visage To thilke God that after his image Yow made, and thynketh al nis but a faire This world, that passeth sone as floures faire.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• My sister and I cooked a lot together; my sister was a very healthy vegetarian. She was always a real good teacher for me about organics, recycling, composting -whenever you hear me talk about it, it's usually because of my sister's influence.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Good
  • Real
  • She

• Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Strong

• As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.

  

  John Catsimatidis
  • Law
  • Support

• When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Time
  • Long

• Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Job