Gerald Finzi Quotes

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

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• There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Corruption
  • Incidents

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Why
  • Help
  • Mistakes

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Teacher

• We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Business
  • Doing
  • Open

• Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Music
  • Night
  • Dance

• I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.

  

  Hamilton E. James
  • School
  • Business
  • College

• People would continue to adopt a particular conception of the divine because it worked for them, not because it was scientifically or philosophically sound.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People

• Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Party
  • Tea

• Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Why

• A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Friend

• I want to be able to give a positive image for people to look up to.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Positive

• That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well and employs hundreds of thousands of people. What else am I going to do? I'm not an artist. I'm not a writer. I'm not a musician. I'd love to be a tennis player or musician. I'm not.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Running
  • Player

• Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • World
  • Faith
  • Bridge

• If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

  

  Franz Grillparzer
  • Work
  • Believe
  • May

• I've long loved emerging markets airlines because they usually sell at bargain prices. The troubled history of developed market airlines unfairly taints these stocks. In the emerging world, they're growth stocks.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • World
  • Long
  • History

• Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.

  

  Rachel True
  • Done
  • Past
  • I Have Learned

• In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

  

  Gerald Finzi
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