Delvene Delaney Quotes
I love being my age. I love getting older. What you lose in looks, you gain in wisdom. I might not be as physically beautiful on the outside today, but I'm much more beautiful on the inside. True beauty comes from inside.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
-
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
-
Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
-
I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
-
I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
-
I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
-
I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
-
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
-
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.
-
I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
-
My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'
-
Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
-
Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
-
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
-
I live for the text. It's my job.
-
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
-
I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
-
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
-
We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.
-
[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.
-
I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
-
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
-
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
-
I love being my age. I love getting older. What you lose in looks, you gain in wisdom. I might not be as physically beautiful on the outside today, but I'm much more beautiful on the inside. True beauty comes from inside.
