Anna Friel Quotes

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Anna Friel

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• Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Forever

• You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Idea
  • Competition
  • Place

• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Own
  • Office
  • My Own

• I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Universe
  • Sun
  • Follow

• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Simple
  • Respond
  • Complex

• When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Respect

• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • American
  • America

• What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Father

• Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

  

  Yousef Munayyer
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Respect

• People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Think
  • Perfect

• Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • You
  • Lie
  • Others

• Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • God
  • Friends

• I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Creating

• Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Earth
  • Eyes
  • Sleep

• The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Know
  • Impressed
  • Michel Foucault

• What Miss Moore’s best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it 'comes into and steadies the soul,' so that the reader feels himself 'a life prisoner, but reconciled.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Words

• In fact, contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People

• We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • People
  • World
  • Remember

• Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do; Eek for to winne love in sondry ages, In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Men
  • Wonder

• Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Nature

• Nobody likes to lose. I'm not going to be happy and excited about that, but I'm still going to be me because I know from the bottom of my heart there's going to be a next game; maybe try to win the next game.

  

  Jose Reyes
  • Game
  • Try
  • Lose

• I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

  

  Anna Friel