Lynn Samuels Quotes

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.

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• Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Remember
  • You
  • Know

• There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Music
  • Always
  • Star

• Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Mother
  • Baby
  • Sorry

• The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Money
  • Fight

• There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Present
  • Confidence
  • Enjoy

• Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Success
  • Right

• We need a more strategic, coordinated, statewide plan that identifies high-demand jobs or industries with a projected under-supply and offer training to get these Oregonians to work.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Work
  • High
  • Training

• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Praise

• Women have been kicking ass for centuries.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Centuries
  • Kicking

• I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Think
  • Actor
  • Personal

• Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Love
  • Light
  • Change

• Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Character
  • Single
  • Progress

• No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Work
  • Challenge

• The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Stop
  • Difficult

• The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Practice
  • Sharing

• Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Best

• At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • God
  • Strong
  • Faith

• Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick up an instrument.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Up
  • Time
  • Song

• If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.

  

  George Cukor

• The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Way
  • Behinds
  • Pages

• A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Great
  • Done
  • Christian

• To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • College

• I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.

  

  Lynn Samuels