Densey Clyne Quotes
Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.
Quotes to Explore
-
Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
-
I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
-
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
-
In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!
-
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
-
When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
-
Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
-
I tend to stay away from the comics.
-
I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.
-
I know about raising money.
-
It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
-
Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.
-
I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.
-
Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.
-
Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
-
When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
-
The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.
-
I am forever living in my childhood.
-
I'm working my way toward divinity.
-
Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.
-
I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
-
'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces
-
Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.
