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

• Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Atlantis
  • Mantis
  • Condor

• Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Fun
  • Never
  • Cry

• Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Literature
  • Contentment

• The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Good
  • Society
  • Political

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

  

  Taliesin