Romola Garai Quotes

I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.

Romola Garai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 6, 1982

Topics

ThinkPerfectBadIntelligentAlways

I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.

Jim Doyle

MoreMadeThanGovernorEverAny

There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.

Joe Cocker

PeopleMePenJust BecauseHand

I thought the message of the artist was more important than the writing style. I tried to be clear; I wanted everyone to be welcome. I think some of the more serious writers wrote to a more elite audience than that. They're the ones who were defining the seriousness of rock n' roll.

Robert Hilburn

StyleWelcomeWritingThinkThought

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

John Updike

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As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

Sienna Miller

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

AdversityManMindBravePressure

When I first started writing songs, I did play with my fingers, and I had these kind of weird strums. There's, like, three or four strumming patterns that seemed kind of unique to me.

Lou Barlow

MeWritingWeirdUniquePlayThree

If you have only a glass of water, then one person can drink. If you have a bucket, a whole family can benefit.

Chen Guangbiao

FamilyWaterYouPersonGlassDrink

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Cher

GreatYouLookReadyNeverFoolish

People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.

Bryan Batt

HomeLiveStyleDayHappyPeople

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Anne Frank

LongKindRunSpiritGentleWeapon

I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn't seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end, I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again, it seems a bit obtrusive.

Alice Munro

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