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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894

Topics

Life Good Dinner Long Difference

I started working as a movie writer and a movie producer... all the way back to 'Teen Wolf' and 'Commando.' All of those experiences, plus working both at DC and at Marvel - each of those things are bricks in the wall.

Teen Wolf Back Wall Way Producer

In 1997, Alain de Botton published his book 'How Proust Can Change Your Life.' I was charmed by it. I remember using it in a course on cultural criticism for a graduate class that had a mix of theorists and creative writers.

Life Change Creative Book Criticism

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

Body Look Feeling Image Position

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.

Robbie Coltrane

Impossible You Trouble Want Shame

My grandmother is very liberal, but... she still has her opinions.

Opinions Grandmother She Her Liberal

I know that a lot of my life is spent thinking about crisps and eating crisps and hating myself for eating crisps. It's just not worth it. Or it wouldn't be if crisps weren't so delicious.

Miriam Margolyes

Life Myself Eating Thinking My Life

It is important to remember that I am not in the G-8; I am just an invited guest.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

I Am Remember Important Guest Just

I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.

Yourself Eating Feel Role Model Say

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.

Christopher Buckley

Dog Worry Enough Bad Try Liver

While I was filming 'Kong' - and I don't play a very capable Army Ranger in 'Kong'; I play a completely different character - but we had a lot of Army Rangers there, former Army Rangers, and Navy SEALs, who were working on the movie with us for the other characters, for the Army guys in the movie.

Character Army Play Navy Capable Us

My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.

Work Nature Beauty Perfect Dark

I love being home at Christmastime.

Love Home Being I Love

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