Campbell McGrath Quotes
It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
-
An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
-
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
-
I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
-
People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
-
I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
-
We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
-
I will not get very far with this attitude.
-
If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
-
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
-
I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
-
Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.
-
Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
-
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
-
The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
-
Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.
-
If I'm such a fucking menace? This shit doesn't make sense, B! It's all political. If my music is literal, then I'm a criminal. How the FUCK can I raise a little girl? I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to.
-
People take things so seriously.
-
'A long white dress that starts under the breast and travels on interminably down - so their legs are entirely mysterious - they could have one leg or two inside that dress... A Jane Austen woman could be incredibly passionate inside that dress.'
-
I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.
-
Every time I see you, all the rays of the sun Are streaming through the waves in your hair And every star in the sky is taking aim at your eyes Like a spotlight.
-
It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.
