Taliesin Quotes

I am old. I am young. I am Gwion, I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.

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• I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Love
  • Character
  • Worry

• One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Successful
  • Reasons
  • Producer

• My work... is my legacy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Legacy

• There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Wish
  • Ending

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Think
  • Working

• I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Real
  • Doing

• In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Way
  • Tough

• In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Yourself
  • Too Much
  • Smell

• The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Years
  • Been
  • Iceland

• Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Know
  • Universe
  • Body

• Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Nothing
  • Manners

• My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Road

• Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Experience
  • Paradox
  • Beyond

• I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Important
  • Think
  • Energy

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Think
  • Color
  • White

• Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

  

  William P. Young

• This is America, and everybody has the right to voice and to have an opinion and to have their commentary on things and people.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • People
  • America
  • Opinion

• Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Understand
  • Old
  • News

• I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Art
  • Power

• I am old. I am young. I am Gwion, I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.

  

  Taliesin