Rebecca Pidgeon Quotes

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

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• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Fashion
  • End

• The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Success
  • Benefits
  • U.S.

• Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Reading
  • Standardized

• Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Crime

• Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future.  And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Song
  • Some
  • Cover

• New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Art

• Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Up
  • Italian
  • Paid

• Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Love Is
  • Loyalty
  • Lovers

• My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Experience

• From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought to be an imitation of the law of Moses concerning leprosy, wherein the leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the camp of Israel for a certain time, after which time being judged by the priest to be clean, he was admitted into the camp after a solemn washing. And this may therefore be a type of the washing in baptism, wherein such men as are cleansed of the leprosy of Sin by Faith, are received into the church with the solemnity of baptism.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Baptism
  • Priest
  • Sin By Faith

• There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

  

  William Godwin
  • Passion
  • Imagination
  • Consequence

• You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Mystery

• You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That's how I describe music scenes in New York. That's one of the trippiest things about living here - just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Universe
  • Tree
  • Realizing

• Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

  

  Rebecca Pidgeon
  • Realizing
  • Mystery
  • Uncertain