Martine Syms Quotes

When I'm working on something, even when I don't know exactly where it's going, I have a sense of what I'd like to make. So maybe doing things right is following that sense even when I stop trusting myself. The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.

Martine Syms

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As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.

John Burnside

GreatChildBirdsStoryFurniture

People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.

Andrew Yang

AdversityPeopleGrowProsperity

Summer of 1967 was one of the happiest times of my life.

Ron Moody

LifeMy LifeSummerHappiestTimes

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

Rupert Everett

ThinkWindowsBeliefHumanFirst

I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

Mike O'Malley

SpeechJokeJokesGutsDidBiggest

There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.

Michelle Dean

FamousFatOutFictionBooksCourse

What keeps me awake at night? Just about everything! I worry that I am not there for my family enough. So what keeps me awake at night is general guilt!

Julia Sawalha

FamilyI AmMeNightWorryGuilt

I would like to fight as hard as I possibly can in each and every game and win or lose, leave it at that, and move forward. I know in my heart that that is the mindset I need to be a successful and happy athlete.

Christen Press

HeartFightHappyWinGameForward

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

William Godwin

MenManRightRealActiveRights

YouTube has always been a diary for me. I'm here to share what I do, share my life, and if people want to watch, more power to them. But regardless of my intention, if people are looking at what I do and am treating it like I'm a role model, it doesn't matter whether or not I want to be.

Tyler Oakley

LifePowerPeopleMeLookingWant

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

Tobe Hooper

StoryLivingLondonDeadProduction

I hope I can be a filmmaker where every movie will be different, and not make one type of movie. I'm always looking for a character that interests me.

Morten Tyldum

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