D. H. Lawrence Quotes

The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

D. H. Lawrence

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• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

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• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

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• Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

  

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• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  

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• In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  

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• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

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• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

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• I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

  

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• I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

  

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• I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.

  

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• If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

  

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• I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

  

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• The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

  

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• And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.

  

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• In not more than a month’s time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head.

  

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• All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it.

  

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• It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

  

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• What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.

  

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• When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like, 'Oh, God, there's no way I'm going to see that movie,' because I knew what that movie was, was just two people sitting down to dinner over and over and over again. But then when I went to see it, it was like, 'Oh, they made it work.'

  

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• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Black
  • Eyes