Bill Henson Quotes

What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.

Bill Henson

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• I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Know
  • I Can

• I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Death
  • Someone
  • Anybody

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Support
  • Lost

• I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they find themselves in the middle of their lives having seen some of the darkest things that are just unimaginable to the rest of us.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Work
  • Think
  • Rest

• Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • Mind
  • Running
  • Like

• Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Cool
  • Chance

• All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Black
  • Party
  • Taken

• I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Naive
  • Outlook

• On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Identity

• You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Think
  • Today

• People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Poor
  • Very

• We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Think
  • Always
  • Matters

• Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Political

• For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • New
  • New York
  • Club

• The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• There's a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could.

  

  Amanda Lee Williford
  • New
  • Creating
  • Studio

• I've always been a fan first and foremost - obsessing over bands and seeking out bands, and spending hours and hours listening. When I played music, the scope of my fandom became more myopic; I was focusing on the bands we were touring with, or the bands on the label. And you're always positing yourself in relation to other bands. Since I haven't been playing, I feel a little less cynical. I'm able to seek out music and approach it strictly as a fan.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Listening
  • Cynical

• There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Never
  • Experiences
  • Fishing

• I just want to be in the studio 24/7. Even if I'm not working on a song right then, just sit in the studio. That's what I love.

  

  Kiara Saulters
  • Song

• Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.

  

  Rumi
  • Fear
  • Human
  • Walking

• What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.

  

  Bill Henson
  • Experiences
  • Morality
  • Move