Tim Rice-Oxley Quotes

I don’t think it’s possible to be a good artist without being a bit of a freak. If you were happy and contended and normal then you wouldn’t be able to work.

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• If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Wall

• I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • American
  • War

• In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Garden
  • Germany
  • Bag

• Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Radio
  • Go

• You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • She
  • Truth

• Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • You
  • Realize

• Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Kind
  • Drama
  • Own

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Amount
  • Massive
  • Genetics

• At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Red
  • Loving
  • Wings

• I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • May
  • Today
  • Action

• I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Unique
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, so like our older siblings before us, we drove our pickup trucks out into the hayfield and lit a bonfire.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Up
  • Way
  • Small

• It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Darkness
  • Unknown
  • Loss

• The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Body
  • Year

• Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Strength

• I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in Putney, which is pretty rough.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Wrong

• As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• We live in the greatest country in the history of mankind every single day.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Live
  • Country
  • History

• The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority they resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists as at abstraction.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Energy
  • Understanding

• In the old movies, yes, there always was the happy ending and order was restored. As it is in Shakespeare's plays. It's no disgrace to, in the end, restore order. And punish the wicked and, in some way, reward the righteous.

  

  John Updike
  • Happy

• I don’t think it’s possible to be a good artist without being a bit of a freak. If you were happy and contended and normal then you wouldn’t be able to work.

  

  Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Good Artist