Francesca Battistelli Quotes

I don't need my name in lights I'm famous in my Father's eyes Make no mistake He knows my name.

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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Learn

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • House
  • Never

• Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Sun

• The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Art

• The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

  

  Edward Irving
  • Home
  • Night
  • Health

• To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

  

  Arthur Cohn
  • America

• The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.

  

  Carol P. Christ

• I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

  

  Pratyusha Banerjee
  • Happy

• The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Life
  • Done
  • Hand

• I like to work the count, but I know when I have to be aggressive.

  

  Carlos Ruiz
  • Work

• I write what I want to write, and then, when it's finished, I use my judgment to see whether or not I think it's intrusive. If it is problematic, then I ask those involved. I won't necessarily do what they say. But I do consult. I haven't had too many problems. Nobody's really gotten angry at me. Nobody, as far as I know, has felt betrayed.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Angry

• There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.

  

  David Denman
  • People
  • Time
  • Political

• I've been trained and lived my entire life on the smallscreen.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • Life

• I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.

  

  Alistair Petrie

• Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Art
  • Book

• There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Differences
  • Giants
  • Octopus

• What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Dog
  • Differences

• The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

  

  Gerry Cooney
  • Mistake
  • Fight
  • Signed

• I don't need my name in lights I'm famous in my Father's eyes Make no mistake He knows my name.

  

  Francesca Battistelli
  • Mistake
  • Needs
  • Knows