Margaret Halsey Quotes

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

Margaret Halsey

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• When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Style
  • Myself
  • Finish

• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Original
  • Both

• I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • She
  • Food
  • Early

• What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Powerful

• Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Purpose
  • Vote
  • Voting

• But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Life
  • Control
  • Succeed

• I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Goal

• I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • American
  • Like
  • Looking

• I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Rich
  • Fascination

• One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Truth
  • Reality

• There’s obviously always danger in making music or art for art’s sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

  

  Steven Curtis Chapman
  • Music
  • Art
  • Guilty

• I'll fucking beat the fuck out of you.

  

  Justin Bieber

• I started a student organization that was basically designed to connect students with homeless folks. We visited them and sometimes brought food, but mostly we were there for swapping stories.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Food
  • Organization
  • Homeless

• I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Up
  • Daughter
  • Breakfast

• The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Strong

• My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!

  

  Chrissie Fit
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Power

• Marriage requires effort and time and talking and connecting. You have to maintain it.

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • Time
  • Marriage
  • Effort

• Outside Adelaide, Australia: '...they showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen !! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen' (11 July 1920)

  

  Edward VIII
  • Great

• Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

  

  Meg Tilly
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Eyes

• Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Command
  • Heroism
  • Stance

• The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

  

  Margaret Halsey