Richard Rodney Bennett Quotes

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

Richard Rodney Bennett

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• I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Drunk
  • Before
  • Got

• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Beauty
  • Voice
  • Charming

• I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Important
  • Focus

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Always

• I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Feel
  • More
  • Jewish

• If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Think
  • Want
  • Right

• I spend a lot of time on my music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Spend

• When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Book
  • Father

• If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • History
  • Political
  • Meaning

• Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Remember
  • Best
  • Advice

• Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • Life
  • Journey

• And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt I keep making this to-do list but nothing gets crossed out Working on the record seems pointless now When the world ends who's gonna hear it?

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • World
  • Focus
  • Doubt

• If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Time
  • Movie

• It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • May
  • Happy
  • Calm

• Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Women
  • Model

• I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to be able to understand how something works. True mimicry is actually quite difficult.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Believe
  • True

• A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Boxing
  • Chess

• You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.

  

  David Wenham
  • World
  • Career
  • Control

• I look for roles that resonate with me these days. While I love putting out just fabulous entertainment, I think now as artists, especially with so much uncertainty going on in the world, you want to be a part of things that offer or promote healing in some way and perhaps a little introspection once you leave.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.

  

  Edgerrin James
  • Important
  • Move
  • Catch

• I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.

  

  Willard Scott
  • Today
  • Audience
  • Tired

• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Beauty

• I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

  

  Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Play