Winona Ryder Quotes

When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she was somehow able to get a real projector. And she had some connections, so she would get real prints, and we'd put up a sheet. The first movies I saw were To Kill a Mockingbird 1962, Gigi 1958, A Woman Under the Influence 1974. Then when I was old enough to be able to rent movies, I went through a very big Cassavetes phase.

Winona Ryder

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• John Cassavetes

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• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Band

• It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Time
  • World
  • High

• I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Street
  • Workers
  • Construction

• I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • World
  • Afraid
  • Dentist

• What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Time
  • God
  • Fear

• If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Focused
  • Outside

• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Respect
  • Yourself
  • Content

• The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Alive
  • Championship

• Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Real
  • House

• I was feeling it. I felt like that put us in a good position to win the game at that point.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Good
  • Game
  • Feeling

• I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Job
  • Jobs
  • Hell

• Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Instruments
  • Attack

• When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Evidence
  • Object
  • Mastership

• I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Long
  • Research
  • Run

• The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Art
  • May
  • Culture

• If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Game
  • Change
  • Revolution

• I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Basketball

• Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Thinking
  • Couple
  • Healthy

• Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Character
  • Always
  • Fiction

• If I wasn't me, I'd want to be me.

  

  Eddie Irvine
  • Want

• When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she was somehow able to get a real projector. And she had some connections, so she would get real prints, and we'd put up a sheet. The first movies I saw were To Kill a Mockingbird 1962, Gigi 1958, A Woman Under the Influence 1974. Then when I was old enough to be able to rent movies, I went through a very big Cassavetes phase.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Obsessed
  • Gena Rowlands
  • John Cassavetes