Frances O'Grady Quotes

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

Frances O'Grady

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• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Important
  • Black

• Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Day

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.

  

  Washed Out
  • Done
  • Want
  • Past

• I think I'm a bit odd.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Odd

• I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Work
  • Think
  • Habits

• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Evil

• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Act

• I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Sweet

• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Personality

• In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Character
  • Army
  • United States

• Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Art
  • Business
  • Attention

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Famous

• I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Me
  • Tool
  • saw

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.

  

  Bob Nelson
  • Focus

• All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Easy

• I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but it was intensified by my sister, Elena, who is one year older than me. I used to hang out with her all the time, and whenever I travelled, I used to buy her clothes and style her.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Time
  • Women
  • Mother

• I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Feet