Alice Lowe Quotes

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

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• I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Try
  • Just

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Music
  • Theory

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Country
  • Help
  • Problem

• I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • First
  • Concert

• If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • Generation
  • Listen

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I do everything in a straightforward manner.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Everything
  • Manner

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Water
  • Memory
  • Fish

• Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Women
  • Star
  • Sports

• My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Kid

• Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Conversation
  • Group
  • Twitter

• Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • She
  • Photography

• I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Job
  • Remember
  • Giving

• Disco told audiences to dance, while punk told them to be anything but passive. The artists didn't mind; in fact, they encouraged it.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Mind
  • Dance

• There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Kath Two was Survey. Whether or not this made her military was a topic of almost theological complexity.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • Military

• For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

  

  Alice Lowe
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Judging