Tacitus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
-
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
-
I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
-
There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
-
I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
-
Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
-
I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
-
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
-
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
-
Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
-
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
-
I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
-
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
-
I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
-
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
-
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
-
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
-
At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.
-
“No one is born a genius.Just keep doing what you like and that itself is a talent.”
-
After a few years, we realized that you did have to put some work into it. That's why the bimbo comments make me angry. After seven years, people have to realize we have a certain amount of talent.
-
I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota.
-
Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.
-
I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
-
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
