Marcus Brigstocke Quotes

I don't like David Blaine, he is the ultimate git wizard.

Marcus Brigstocke

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• I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Science
  • Study
  • Language

• I know I look super young.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Know
  • Look
  • Young

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Work
  • Men
  • Reason

• After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Work
  • Home
  • Community

• When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • World
  • Like
  • Feel

• To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Hope
  • Look
  • Difficult

• The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • She
  • Soul
  • Loving

• My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Passion
  • Ideas
  • Politics

• Very ugly things were said about me.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Me
  • Said
  • Ugly

• 'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Film
  • Remade
  • Lisa

• I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Great
  • Paris

• Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • Hate
  • Wish

• Being insecure – I'm a master, a virtuoso – they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Hope
  • Master
  • Key

• When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Up
  • History
  • Negative

• Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Innocent
  • Protect
  • Fail

• I think the one film that I could watch over and over and over again - and I have - is 'Man on Fire.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Think
  • Man
  • Fire

• When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Principles

• I'm not really interested in clothes. Mainly, I like wearing clothes that don't make me stand out - I tend to go for Marks & Spencer and Gap - and I do get put in the changing room at Gap, and clothes are passed to me under the changing room door.

  

  David Cameron
  • Door

• Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the Divine, so much so that the Divine takes over every activity, every moment of your life and looks after you and you feel completely secured, one with the Divine and enjoy the blessings of the Divine.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Me

• I don't like David Blaine, he is the ultimate git wizard.

  

  Marcus Brigstocke