Bat for Lashes Quotes
'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
Quotes to Explore
-
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
-
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
-
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
-
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
-
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
-
I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
-
I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.
-
I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
-
It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
-
I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
-
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
-
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
-
I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
-
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
-
I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
-
I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
-
Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
-
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
-
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
-
It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.
-
All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.
-
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
-
The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and the seals are a permanent center of attraction for children.
-
'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
