Alison Moyet Quotes

I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.

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• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Time
  • Help
  • Free

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Good Company

• Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Men
  • Why
  • Wise

• I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!

  

  Rain
  • Music
  • Child
  • Talent

• I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Sun
  • Poison
  • Cancerous

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Film
  • See

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • You
  • Trust
  • Go For It

• If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Think

• When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Long
  • Children
  • Education

• One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Good
  • Important
  • Practice

• Battles are won in the hearts of men.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Men
  • Hearts
  • Battles

• Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Need
  • Reform
  • Yes

• I think Alma Reville was the only one Alfred Hitchcock trusted. When it came to issues of taste or what the audience wanted, down to editing, script and casting, he would turn to her first. She was his partner.

  

  Sacha Gervasi
  • She
  • Partner

• I did a stint on 'Dollhouse,' and prior to my stint on 'Dollhouse,' I had no plans to be working with Joss Whedon until he said, 'Hey, do you want to do this?' When he calls, I'll pick up the phone, and that's how that works.

  

  Alan Tudyk
  • Up

• If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Alone

• Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Abuse
  • Planet
  • Receives

• I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • She
  • Alone
  • Cat