Antonia Fraser Quotes
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
-
In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
-
On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
-
It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
-
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
-
An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
-
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
-
'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
-
I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
-
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
-
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
-
I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
-
The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
-
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
-
The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
-
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
-
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
-
And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
-
I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
-
In fashion, there's huge pressure to produce results in no time. But you cannot guarantee numbers, because fashion gravitates around desire.
-
We need to reach out - spend more time together.
-
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
-
Practice and practice and practice, and you'll make friends all over the world.
-
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
