Danzy Senna Quotes

I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.

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• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone's 'Alexander.' I didn't get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Paris
  • Streets
  • Modeling

• I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Thought
  • Emotional

• I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Think
  • Question

• Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

  

  Azar Nafisi

• I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.

  

  Claudia Gray
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Mood

• No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Service

• If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Road
  • Travel

• There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Experience
  • Reading

• A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Good
  • Great
  • Book

• I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.

  

  Neal Schon
  • Done

• I've known Roger Ailes for 15 years, and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Respect

• I always try to be cautiously optimistic.

  

  David Walton
  • Optimistic

• Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

  

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

• My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

  

  Alicia Silverstone
  • Boyfriend
  • Princess

• It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

  

  John Mahoney
  • War
  • Sister

• I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Death

• I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Church

• All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Personality
  • Identity

• Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Needs

• I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Stories
  • Direction
  • French

• I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.

  

  Danzy Senna
  • Thinking
  • Resolution
  • Neat