Ricky Whittle Quotes

Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the new family.' But that's where we are in the world, I guess. It's getting better; everything's heading in the right direction, whether it be race, sex, gender.

Ricky Whittle

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• The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Live
  • Eating

• There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Image

• I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Love

• Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Real
  • Story
  • Where

• I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Business
  • Military
  • Author

• Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • People
  • Kids
  • Lost

• I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Work
  • Love
  • Language

• And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Read
  • Theater
  • Journalism

• Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • May
  • Power

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Feel
  • Without

• I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Watching

• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Life
  • Man
  • Gardening

• If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Reason
  • Explore
  • Ballet

• My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Success
  • Professional
  • Act

• I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Shopping
  • Vintage

• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Me
  • Try

• My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Brother

• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• Part of doing good work is caring deeply about it, believing in what you're doing, and getting incredibly attached to the characters that you're playing, the stories you're telling, and the people you're working with.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Political

• Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the new family.' But that's where we are in the world, I guess. It's getting better; everything's heading in the right direction, whether it be race, sex, gender.

  

  Ricky Whittle
  • Family
  • Everything
  • Direction