Alice Eve Quotes

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Alice Eve

• World
• Real
• Relationship
• Poetry
• Literature

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Literature
  • Understand
  • Gold

• If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Science
  • Like
  • Imagination

• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Think
  • Science
  • Loved

• I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • World
  • Women
  • Opportunity

• Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Up
  • Real
  • True

• I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Up
  • Real
  • Trying

• I've got a clear line between work and real life.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Relationship
  • Person
  • Jealous

• There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • World
  • Best
  • Risk

• That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Relationship

• As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • World
  • Women
  • Power

• Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.

  

  Elisabetta Canalis
  • World
  • Reality

• Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I think, perhaps, it would be useful if I repeat again to you the words which I used in the first speech when I became leader of our party in 1911...“No government of which I am a member will ever be a government of reaction...” That was my view then and it is my view today, and if I thought the Unionist Party was or would ever become a party of that kind I would not be a member of it.

  

  Bonar Law
  • Party
  • Government
  • Leader

• As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Disturb
  • Nectar
  • Wise Move

• I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

  

  Alice Eve
  • World
  • Real
  • Relationship