Gertrude Atherton Quotes

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Films
  • Fan
  • Filmmaking

• To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dad

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Growing

• If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Makeup

• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Same
  • Stock

• I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Surprised

• If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Then
  • You Can Do It

• Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Work
  • Power
  • Dirty

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Trying
  • Quality
  • Try

• I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy
  • Suffering

• I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Day

• Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Work
  • Reality

• I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Money

• I do think I'm a character actor.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Character

• You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Movie

• I have a great female support system. We encourage each other because we all face some of the same difficulties. We all experience mommy guilt. It's always great to have an uplifting support system.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Support
  • Female
  • Guilt

• I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
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