Lena Headey Quotes

I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.

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• Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Idea

• I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Man

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Good
  • Busy

• The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Art
  • War

• Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Important
  • Success
  • Single

• If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Tongue

• Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • World
  • Different
  • True

• What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Opinion
  • Goal
  • Humble

• You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Change
  • Organization

• Why should youngsters get butterflies in their stomachs while working with me when my condition too is no different from theirs?

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Different
  • Why

• When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.

  

  Marcus Garvey
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

  

  James Balog
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?

  

  Billy Beane
  • Risk
  • Path
  • Insurance

• I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That's all I do. I don't do anything important; I just work in entertainment.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I adore Madrid. It's my city. If I ever move, it will only be for work. Whenever I travel, I always want to get back home.

  

  Maria Valverde
  • Work
  • Home
  • City

• If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • May

• To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Say
  • False

• The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

  

  James Larkin
  • World

• Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

  

  Ellen Bass
  • Great

• The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Night
  • Black
  • Gold

• I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.

  

  Lena Headey