Bryan Ferry Quotes

You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Find

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • She
  • Character
  • You

• The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Guy
  • Influence
  • Songs

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Life
  • Character
  • Science

• It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Wish

• With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Prove

• I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Only

• History is more interesting than most people think.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • People
  • History
  • Interesting

• Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Good
  • Character
  • Interesting

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Lonely

• The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Story
  • Songs
  • Sing

• Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Creative

• The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Interesting
  • Happen
  • Bedroom

• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

  

  Isaiah Berlin
  • Truth
  • Interesting
  • Prove

• I would love to do Broadway again.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Again
  • Broadway

• I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

  

  Marina Abramovic

• I've been driving since I was 19 years old.

  

  Kathleen Wynne
  • Driving

• You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.

  

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