Vanessa Redgrave Quotes

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

Vanessa Redgrave

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• I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Now

• I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Jump
  • Ready
  • Ring

• What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Best

• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Job

• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Me
  • Wind
  • Fans

• Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • House
  • Air
  • Sick

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Done
  • Serious

• A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Like

• Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Nervous

• If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Patience

• We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Game
  • Change
  • Cards

• I don't do meetings.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Meetings

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Success

• My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Emotions
  • Filmmaking

• I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

  

  Arthur Bradford
  • Write
  • Writers
  • Entertain

• I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Done
  • May

• Marc Jacobs Beauty is really exciting for me; when I was at school, I would always struggle to find make-up that suited my skin tone, and I certainly wouldn't find anything from a luxury brand. I'm glad that girls don't have that problem anymore.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Up
  • School
  • Struggle

• To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.

  

  Elizabeth Holtzman
  • People
  • Government
  • President

• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shakespeare