Arthur Golden Quotes

What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?

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• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • Today
  • Learning

• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Smart
  • Profound

• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Want
  • Me
  • Comedy

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Feeling
  • Body
  • Kindness

• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Girl
  • Knows
  • Innocent

• I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Rather
  • Skinny
  • Curvy

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• I love researching, I love interviewing.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • I Love
  • Interviewing
  • Researching

• The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Home
  • Man

• Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • Simple
  • Cricket

• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Different
  • House
  • Style

• The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Think
  • Know
  • Best

• They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.

  

  Washington Irving

• I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• Dance was something I'd just done at my youth club, and I used to teach dance when I was 14 to 19, 20 years old. I had my own dance group, and then I got more into the acting stuff, and I started doing things for TV. And then I put that on pause, because I really wanted to focus on my real passion, which is music.

  

  Little Simz
  • Music
  • Real
  • Done

• When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

  

  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
  • Hair
  • Bigs
  • Ballads

• We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Sleep
  • Information
  • Facts

• What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?

  

  Arthur Golden
  • Done
  • Sleep
  • Hair