Lloyd Dorfman Quotes

The key thing for me is to secure medium-term funding for the Roundhouse studios. It costs around £2m a year to run, but we want to grow it, and of course that will cost more.

Lloyd Dorfman

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• I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Say
  • Now
  • Islam

• But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Should

• My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Never

• God does arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • God
  • Does
  • Arithmetic

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Alone
  • Woman

• I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Giving

• Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

  

  Rain
  • Effort
  • Humility
  • Modesty

• Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Good
  • Best

• My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Family
  • Joke
  • Recognized

• You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Know

• To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Peace
  • Religion

• It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • People
  • History
  • Nice

• There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • World
  • Talent

• Where's Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that... What about Obie?

  

  Obie Trice
  • About
  • Coming
  • Out

• I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• You are creating a Frankenstein. - Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, concerned about the growing strength of the Islamist movement, told President George H. W. Bush.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Growing

• Always a playground instructor, never a Killer

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors

• We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Fight

• You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Praise

• The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Morning

• The key thing for me is to secure medium-term funding for the Roundhouse studios. It costs around £2m a year to run, but we want to grow it, and of course that will cost more.

  

  Lloyd Dorfman