Esther Earl Quotes

I like music, indie stuff, but I don’t like liking music that other people like.

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• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Fall
  • Actors
  • Directors

• People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Ignorant

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Second Chance

• In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • American
  • Girl
  • City

• You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Young
  • Hollywood
  • Eat

• The Big Five is a competition played in the University of Pennsylvania's Palestra among five Philadelphia-area Division I schools: Saint Joseph's, La Salle, Penn, Temple, and Villanova. 'The Big Five' was immensely popular, and rivalries quickly grew to intense proportions.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Popular
  • Competition
  • Big

• She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Guy
  • Woman
  • Laugh

• One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Power
  • Truth

• I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• I love the '60s - that's my comfort zone as far as dressing goes.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Love
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Read

• Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Great
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Friends
  • Loner

• To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

  

  Dirk Benedict
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • People
  • Music
  • Strong

• I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

  

  Christa B. Allen
  • Childhood

• I like music, indie stuff, but I don’t like liking music that other people like.

  

  Esther Earl
  • Music
  • Like
  • Stuff