Alycia Debnam-Carey Quotes

My whole philosophy has been to let the work speak for itself, because that's really what you want to show.

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Game
  • Know
  • Better

• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reading

• Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Start

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Sometimes

• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
  • Irish

• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • Car
  • Drive

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Clothing

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Always
  • Win

• When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Failure

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Market
  • Russia
  • E-Commerce

• I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Art
  • Travel
  • Teacher

• One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction, and it never comes. The market just keeps climbing and climbing.

  

  Martin Zweig
  • People

• The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • Real
  • Earth

• I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Work
  • Moment

• I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• When you work in low budgets, you can do weird stuff.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Work
  • Weird

• My whole philosophy has been to let the work speak for itself, because that's really what you want to show.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • Work