Dennis Cooper Quotes

I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it just amounts to how the sound is lowered or raised. I was trying to get that with writing.

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Speech

• The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Simple
  • Quality
  • Salad

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

  

  Val Guest
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Favourite

• I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Money
  • Like
  • Debt

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Different
  • Young
  • Islam

• Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Good
  • Car
  • Memory

• I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Fight
  • Public
  • Interested

• I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • World
  • Why
  • Energy

• No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Water

• I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Famous

• I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.

  

  Andrae Crouch

• By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.

  

  Nell Newman
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Act
  • The Beatles
  • Roy Orbison

• Happy music doesn't tend to move me much.

  

  Duncan Sheik
  • Music
  • Happy

• I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials. I try really hard to do that, and brands really pop out to me if I know they're trying to be environmentally friendly.

  

  Jessica Hart
  • Believe
  • Trying

• I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it just amounts to how the sound is lowered or raised. I was trying to get that with writing.

  

  Dennis Cooper
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Raised