Gavin DeGraw Quotes

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

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• I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Beautiful
  • Mom
  • Grandmother

• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Day
  • Thought

• I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • Women
  • She

• Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Awesome
  • Dinner
  • Bread

• I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Fiercer

• I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Place
  • Loved
  • Cute

• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Energy

• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Film

• If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Desire
  • Government
  • Progress

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Football
  • Group
  • Leg

• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Different
  • You
  • Kind

• The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Nature
  • Story
  • Lovers

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Time
  • Work
  • Eye

• Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Political
  • Independence

• To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Passion
  • Examine
  • Ruling

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • Words
  • You

• But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • Trying
  • Taken
  • Decision

• When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Understand
  • Ship
  • Gale

• I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Other