Gabrielle Anwar Quotes
I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
Quotes to Explore
-
Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
-
I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
-
I grew up in a very large, poor family.
-
I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
-
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
-
Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
-
I love to push myself.
-
I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
-
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
-
Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
-
I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
-
It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
-
We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
-
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
-
Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
-
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
-
I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
-
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
-
I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
-
At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.
-
A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'
-
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
-
I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
