Clemence Poesy Quotes

For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.

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• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Day
  • Thought

• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Real
  • Need
  • Busy

• When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.

  

  Warren Beatty
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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
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• Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Self
  • Just
  • Some

• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Knowledge
  • Economy

• Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Woman
  • First
  • Own

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Way
  • Play
  • Dreams

• I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Political
  • Independence

• In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Always
  • Wishes
  • Philippines

• I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Like
  • Hero
  • See

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone, it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • World
  • Focus
  • Crazy

• In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Interesting

• I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Trying
  • Job

• Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Perfect