Gerald Massey Quotes

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

Gerald Massey

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• 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

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Control
  • Taxes

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Different
  • Myself

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Trust
  • Fact
  • Main

• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Loved

• Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Period

• There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Free
  • Thing
  • Eating

• What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Use
  • Box

• As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Father
  • Perfect

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Reading

• Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Fighting
  • Competition
  • Place

• But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • Me
  • Person

• I think of the Jens Lekman in the songs as a completely different person who's stealing my stories.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Different

• In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Feel
  • Talking
  • Colleagues

• The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

  

  Edward Herrmann
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.'

  

  J. California Cooper
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Married

• This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

  

  Gerald Massey
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Duty