Constance Markievicz Quotes
Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.
Quotes to Explore
-
My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
-
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
-
I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
-
After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
-
We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
-
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
-
I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
-
We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
-
Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
-
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
-
I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
-
It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
-
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
-
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
-
Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
-
Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
-
It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
-
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
-
I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
-
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
-
I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.
-
I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.
-
That's the thing, though: It doesn't matter how much you've done or who you've played with. Do you have the passion?
-
Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.
