Chris Priestley Quotes

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

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• My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Angel
  • Writers

• I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Beauty
  • Hollywood
  • Sort

• I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Strange
  • Kid
  • Piano

• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

  

  Oliver North
  • Writers
  • Readers

• It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Strange
  • Beer

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Strange

• My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strange

• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Beginning
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Know
  • Strange
  • Act

• Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Done
  • Movies
  • Broken

• You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Strange

• I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writers
  • Thriller
  • Favourites

• I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.

  

  Warren Kole
  • People
  • Know
  • Place

• The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Quality
  • Stars
  • Strange

• Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • People
  • Church
  • Strange

• I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Strange
  • Others
  • Unusual

• I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Home

• Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Names
  • Mathematics

• Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion dollars but has only spent $200 million.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • People
  • Impossible
  • Aids

• I think the Brexit vote in Great Britain informing this populist movement of nationalism is kind of a global thing, and I think it's no particular political party's fault. People have been left behind, and in America, we're used to going forward. It's always like we're going to be better; the next generation's going to be better.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Lies
  • Blood
  • Break

• Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

  

  Chris Priestley
  • Strange
  • Writers
  • Sort