Geraldine Chaplin Quotes
If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.
Quotes to Explore
-
Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
-
The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
-
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
-
I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
-
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
-
I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
-
Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
-
I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
-
If you don't feel clean, it affects everything you do; you can't even focus right.
-
I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
-
A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
-
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
-
God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
-
The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
-
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
-
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
-
My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
-
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
-
But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.
-
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
-
If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.
