Tarsem Singh Quotes

If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.

Tarsem Singh

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• Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Should

• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Want
  • You

• Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Fool

• Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • May
  • Door
  • Voice

• I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • American
  • Guy

• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Men
  • Long
  • Home

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Want
  • Something

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Care
  • Daughter

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Team
  • Planning

• Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • People
  • Party
  • Fashion

• I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Important
  • Art

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Hair
  • Pattern
  • Brocaded

• Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Work
  • Like
  • Leap

• I love Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox's real-life relationship.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • Life
  • Real
  • Relationship

• My earlier books, 'The Oath,' 'This Present Darkness' were pretty straight adventure. 'The Visitation' is like a deeper book, more thought-provoking. It probes at character more.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • Character
  • Book
  • Pretty

• Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • Time
  • Present
  • Progress

• If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Shoes