Robin Leach Quotes

Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds.

Robin Leach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 29, 1941 - August 24, 2018

Topics

JobQueenEndHotelWeekDown

I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Hollywood.' It feels like the wrong reason - I would prefer they entered the business for artistic reasons, because they need to do it.

John Cho

ChangeBusinessWrongHollywoodNeed

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

Maynard James Keenan

ListeningYouKnowUpJoni Mitchell

With social media, with Instagram and selfies and all these apps that are trying to make you look perfect... it's hard for girls to grow up nowadays with all that stuff.

Meghan Trainor

Social MediaGrowMediaYouLookUp

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

Melanie Griffith

LoveCharacterWomanPeopleSeeing

I'm not running for anything but my own seat.

Maxine Waters

My OwnAnythingOwnSeatRunning

My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down.

Amor Towles

MarriageWomanFunDownToo Much

I am someone who doesn't say no to opportunities and, thus, would be happy to do something interesting on television.

Amruta Khanvilkar

I AmHappyBe HappyOpportunities

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Rosanne Cash

MeWritingPerfectFindNothing

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

Mitt Romney

I CanSometimesWillPredictNever

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

Chris Cornell

QuirkyPrettyWereSoundgarden

I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction.

Peter Steele

PeopleGoSometimesReactionSee

My understanding of religion and science is that they're both arrogant schools of thought, and whether they acknowledge it or not they continually broadcast the idea that they have the world figured out. And what they don't know, they have a theory for which is probably correct. It feels like that shrinks the world, rather than expands it.

Scott Derrickson

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