Marie Helvin Quotes

I like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.

Marie Helvin

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• If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Guitar
  • Just
  • Studying

• I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.

  

  Gage Golightly
  • Work
  • Think
  • Actor

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.

  

  Edmund White
  • Positive
  • Enemy
  • Gay

• As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Crime
  • Bed

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Things
  • While

• A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Career
  • Seem

• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Laugh

• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Bring

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Successful

• I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Hate

• When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Air
  • Cold
  • Sick

• I regret all of my books.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Books
  • Regret

• I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that's what's sort of exciting about it.

  

  Inara George
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Mistakes

• And from the moment that I saw you, I knew you was trouble, But I disregarded detour signs, And did not stop til you was mine. I guess God was like, 'Aight, fine.' Careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it in heaps. Try to give it back, He be like, 'Nah, that's yours to keep.'

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Wish

• The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Long
  • Power
  • Control

• At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Time
  • Night

• I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.

  

  Iman
  • Been
  • Muse
  • Mr

• I like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Happy
  • Night
  • Independent