Cosima Spender Quotes

If something I make succeeds, people say it was luck. But I don't just throw myself into the unknown. I research my subjects and listen constantly to what the characters have to say. Luck comes into it, but the story is made by them.

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• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Three
  • London

• Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.

  

  Paige Butcher
  • Waiting
  • Doing
  • Blessed

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Black
  • Doing
  • Makeup

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Living

• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • History
  • Future
  • Change

• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • World
  • Free
  • Player

• I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.

  

  Obie Trice
  • School
  • Style
  • Cats

• I love tap!

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Tap

• The joke around my office is that I've shaken many hands, but I've petted more dogs.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Hands
  • Office
  • Dogs

• Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • Know
  • Nothing

• There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Help
  • Strong

• A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Simple

• One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • War
  • Peace
  • Alone

• My big 'don't' would be wearing something just because someone told you it looks cool. I think a lot of people fall victim to that - of doing something that's a trend, but then you can tell if they don't own it or don't like it.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • People
  • Fall
  • Cool

• I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Music
  • Country
  • Age

• I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.

  

  Eric Dickerson
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Taken

• A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

  

  Dario Fo
  • Time
  • Literature
  • Theatre

• Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Way

• The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

  

  Elle Macpherson

• If something I make succeeds, people say it was luck. But I don't just throw myself into the unknown. I research my subjects and listen constantly to what the characters have to say. Luck comes into it, but the story is made by them.

  

  Cosima Spender
  • People
  • Story
  • Luck