Barbara Taylor Bradford Quotes

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

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• I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Happy
  • Films
  • Liking

• I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Social
  • Corruption
  • Activism

• I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Europeans
  • Italians

• My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Picture
  • Techniques
  • Fashions

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Mind
  • Rules

• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Best
  • Purpose
  • Picture

• I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Exercise
  • Temptation
  • Pains

• I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Poverty
  • Development
  • Bullish

• I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • History
  • Student

• I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • United States
  • Iraq

• My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • School
  • Love

• I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Record
  • Executive

• I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Character
  • Professional
  • Actor

• I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Myself
  • Picture
  • Mirror

• I am not cocky or real showboatish.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Showboatish

• At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • Quality

• The most important connection I can see between my faith and my work is that in the progress of my day, I try to be restrained and mindful of every person's humanity and of the overwhelming challenge of pride.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Work
  • Important
  • Faith

• The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mind

• Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Picture
  • Biography
  • Elizabeth I