Anne Reid Quotes

I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi Dench got.

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• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Morning
  • Road
  • Son

• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Society
  • Product
  • Boredom

• Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Know
  • Ambition

• You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • City
  • Best
  • Animal

• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Business
  • Help
  • Write

• I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Determination

• The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Future
  • Lies

• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Together
  • Kiss
  • Rose

• A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Long
  • Character
  • Movie

• I want people to be able to give their voice.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Want
  • Voice

• The Internet is crazy, and I love it!

  

  Zach Anner
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Internet

• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Possible
  • Uncertainty

• At the end of the day, you know yourself best.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Day
  • Best
  • End

• Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light...

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Light
  • Shadow

• But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Up
  • She
  • Death

• Catfights? What catfights? There is a healthy rivalry between me and other actresses but no one’s ever been bitchy. Kareena Kapoor is a cool girl. As for Preity Zinta, we share an on-screen rapport but we were never friends.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Friends
  • Girl
  • Cool

• Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • American
  • Distance

• Determination gets you a long way.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Long
  • Determination

• I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Change
  • Fashion
  • Confidence

• Iraq is an unjust war. I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • War

• I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Power
  • Involved
  • Straight

• I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi Dench got.

  

  Anne Reid