Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
-
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
-
We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
-
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
-
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
-
I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
-
I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
-
I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.
-
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
-
Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
-
I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
-
For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
-
I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
-
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
-
I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
-
'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
-
And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
-
I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
-
The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.
-
So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
-
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.
-
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
-
Indeed, the key to all diplomacy was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing. Nations were like individuals, requiring cultivation and the paying of respect.
-
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
