Lindsay Duncan Quotes

The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.

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• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Doubt

• The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Might

• When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • World
  • Movie
  • You

• It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Christian
  • Saying

• I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Learn

• To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Live
  • Name
  • Mankind

• There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Happiness

• When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Listening
  • More
  • Tells

• Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Remember
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Hard

• People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Science
  • Win

• There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • Long
  • Care

• I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Just

• The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Black
  • Community
  • Party

• The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Life
  • Women
  • Change

• Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Thinking
  • Now
  • Fame

• As is so often the case with butlers, there was a good deal of Beach. Julius Caesar, who liked to have men about him who were fat, would have taken to him at once. He was a man who had made two chins grow where only one had been before, and his waistcoat swelled like the sail of a racing yacht.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Men
  • Taken

• What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.

  

  Dmitri Alperovitch
  • High
  • Value

• My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

  

  Ian Watson
  • She
  • Wife
  • Drive

• I am preparing myself to leave football. I have always thought that once you get past 30, it is time to reflect on when you should go, and that is what I have done.

  

  Gabriel Batistuta
  • Football
  • Leave
  • Preparing

• The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.

  

  Lindsay Duncan