Simon Rattle Quotes

As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We're insular but also flexible, whereas in Germany, it's a case of besser wissen - we know better. That's very Deutsch. People are never frightened to tell you what you're doing wrong, in a way that would never happen in England.

Simon Rattle

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PeopleLookingBetterDoingYouWay

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

Jerry Reinsdorf

DoingYouWrongDeserveSomething

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'

Ann Leckie

WritingRespondWouldGuideThan

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

Angel Cabrera

WorkEducationEatCompleteBasic

Beyonce is this massive star, but she's incredibly humble. But it's weird because even though I love her, she's my boss's wife.

Rita Ora

LoveHumbleWifeBossWeirdShe

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

Donna Mills

ThinkWaySheGotJustWanted

I remember making my own dog food and feeling very fulfilled by it, then by day four I was over it.

Chrissy Teigen

DogFoodDayRememberFeelingOver

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

Conrad Veidt

MePictureSomeoneWishWriteMay

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

LifeSuccessSucceedObstacles

My dream is to go big someday internationally.

Armaan Malik

DreamGoBigSomedayInternationally

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Auguste Rodin

WorkMenTruePleasureArtistsOnly

I'm the Magoo of actresses, very accident-prone.

Peta Wilson

Very

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Tom Bodett

LaughForgetDifferenceOptimist

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