Ariane Mnouchkine Quotes

I am in the present and only the present matters to me.

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
  • Guess

• I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Start

• I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Days
  • April
  • Along

• I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Rich

• There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Driving

• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Like
  • One Thing

• Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Helping
  • Doors
  • Opening

• My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Help
  • Focus

• If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.

  

  Rachel Ticotin
  • Money
  • Home
  • Yourself

• When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • End
  • Patience

• The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Moving
  • Wit
  • Moving On

• We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Children
  • Thrive

• Never give a sucker an even break.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Never
  • Give
  • Even

• One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Book
  • Know
  • Characters

• Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

  

  Tate Donovan
  • You
  • Know
  • Year

• The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Country
  • Leadership
  • Leaders

• Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Business
  • New

• I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Golf
  • Run
  • Liverpool

• A stylized version of our IKEA present. It is talking about very simple concepts. We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

  

  David Fincher
  • Society
  • Simple
  • Present

• I actually watched 'Lord of the Rings' right when it came out, so maybe 2001 or 2002 or whenever that was. But I watched those movies, and I ended up loving them so much that I found every behind-the-scenes feature and every sort of 'making-of' clip they had.

  

  David Lambert
  • Up

• It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Moments

• Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful that we can sustain healthy economic growth. Without this investment, our nation may disintegrate into a country sharply divided between those who have enough to eat and those who do not.

  

  Alan Hassenfeld
  • Decision
  • Growth
  • Investment

• I am in the present and only the present matters to me.

  

  Ariane Mnouchkine
  • Present
  • Matter