Ellen Meloy Quotes

My geography savors a delicious paradox: Home - a grounding - found in unearthly beauty. The predominant colors are blue, emerald, and terra-cotta. Every day, every season, I taste these colors and the intricate flavors of their unaccountable tones and hues. I have yet to earn this land. Perhaps I never will. Home is a religion. Sensibly you understand the need for it, yet not even sensible people can explain it.

Ellen Meloy

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• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Career
  • Most
  • Other

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • You
  • Page

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • World
  • American

• Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Value
  • End
  • Capitalism

• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Way
  • Start
  • Luck

• There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Life
  • Women
  • America

• I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Up
  • Book
  • Growing

• Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Thought

• I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Death
  • Fear

• Why are some people like Chuck Schumer, who`s probably going to be leader of the Senate, why is he switching from a big city financial center pro-trader to being an anti-trader? Is that because of upstate New York? What`s going on? I can`t figure this out.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Why
  • City

• Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

  

  Tacitus
  • Words

• Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Winning
  • Victory
  • Seems

• The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Country

• In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Painting

• I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Attention
  • Crazy

• Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Like
  • Poetry
  • Bird

• My geography savors a delicious paradox: Home - a grounding - found in unearthly beauty. The predominant colors are blue, emerald, and terra-cotta. Every day, every season, I taste these colors and the intricate flavors of their unaccountable tones and hues. I have yet to earn this land. Perhaps I never will. Home is a religion. Sensibly you understand the need for it, yet not even sensible people can explain it.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Religion
  • Beauty
  • Season