Annie Lennox Quotes

I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

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• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Watch
  • Street
  • Contact

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Down
  • Cat
  • Clever

• Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Barber

• Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Ideas

• Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Real
  • Feeling

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Win
  • Motivational
  • Winners

• People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Day
  • Fall

• I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Inspiration
  • Actor

• He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Very

• I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Money
  • Single
  • Mom

• Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Landing

• My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Character
  • Sacrifice
  • Key

• I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Together
  • Past

• I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Work
  • Study
  • Seriously

• What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.

  

  Mary Stuart Masterson
  • People
  • Important
  • Character

• If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.

  

  Jon Cryer
  • Great
  • Career
  • Stupid

• Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • World
  • Free

• I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.

  

  Deborah Ann Woll
  • May
  • Feeling
  • Celebrity

• Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Chose