Bertrand Bonello Quotes

If you have someone too famous, it's difficult to make a group, because you see just her.

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Run

• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Movie
  • My Life

• I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • Loved
  • Old

• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Mind
  • Done
  • War

• Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Country
  • Together

• Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • Imagination
  • Become

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Friendships

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Ideas
  • End
  • First

• In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Animal
  • Stranger
  • South Africa

• Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Tears
  • Blood
  • Sweat

• The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Country
  • May
  • Fear

• I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Best
  • First
  • Investment

• I keep everything that's private private.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Everything
  • Keep
  • Private

• Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Family
  • Success
  • Pressure

• There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Group

• If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Moral

• It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

  

  Kate Adie
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Poetry

• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Freedom
  • Growth
  • Enemy

• It's so damn hard to bloom… to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without… love.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • World
  • Done
  • Desire

• If you have someone too famous, it's difficult to make a group, because you see just her.

  

  Bertrand Bonello
  • Famous
  • Difficult
  • Group