Bat for Lashes Quotes

I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.

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• There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Live
  • Fools

• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Star
  • Budget
  • Presentation

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Know
  • Play
  • Strange

• Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Live
  • Character

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Life
  • Live
  • Training

• My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Working
  • Camera
  • Pictures

• Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Goal
  • Enough
  • Popular

• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Myself
  • See
  • Diva

• I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Writing
  • College

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Man
  • Black
  • Deep

• Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

  

  Karen O
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Struggle

• I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Up
  • She
  • Reading

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Special

• I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

  

  Boris Becker
  • Children

• I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

  

  Anna Chancellor
  • Work
  • Famous
  • Funeral

• The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.

  

  Louis Armstrong
  • Heard
  • Trombone
  • Teagarden

• The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• When I said I could beat Alexander Gustafsson in a standup fight, people laughed at me. They thought, 'No way.' But I believe in what I'm seeing every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Believe
  • Day

• I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Mind
  • Nature