Alan Moore Quotes

I'm not a millionaire but I'm very comfortable doing what I do, and I'm more productive now than I was in my mid-20s. It's all down to functionality eventually. If you're functional it doesn't matter if you're mad.

Alan Moore

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• There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Say
  • Now
  • Islam

• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Horror

• As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Unity

• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Back
  • Bottle

• I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Book

• I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Pay
  • Films

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Go

• My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Parents

• Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Women
  • Heart

• We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Time
  • Change
  • Coming

• So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sometimes
  • Worry
  • Start

• A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Never

• All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Up
  • Live
  • Food

• If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• The first pet I remember was a cat called Baby. She would sleep with me, and I could call her from anywhere, and she would come running.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • She
  • Remember
  • Running

• My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Family
  • She
  • War

• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Band

• I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • You
  • Taken
  • Door

• I'm not a millionaire but I'm very comfortable doing what I do, and I'm more productive now than I was in my mid-20s. It's all down to functionality eventually. If you're functional it doesn't matter if you're mad.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Mad