Graham Swift Quotes

I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.

Graham Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 4, 1949

Topics

LifeI AmWorldSmallYouPersonal

I don't have any kids of my own.

Joel Edgerton

My OwnOwnKidsAny

There are artists that actually don't like going into the studio. They get mad when people say they've got a session. I'm just the opposite. I actually enjoy it.

Jeremih

PeopleEnjoyMadSayPeople SayGet

I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'localize,' which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.

John Coltrane

SpaceSmallStartThinkLoseGo

Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.

Matt Mullenweg

AppreciationSimplicityNegative

That really has been my message over the years: 'Hey, we're all in this together, so let's laugh about it a little, please.' It adds perspective to an argument if you know where you're coming from.

Jeff MacNelly

PerspectiveTogetherLaughYouKnow

I live in Brooklyn.

Ana Gasteyer

LiveBrooklyn

These young people need to see that there's something bigger out there than what they're looking at everyday or seeing in the news or on social media. They need men and women to come into their lives who will give them a bigger vision of the world, of life, of opportunity, of what they can become rather than what they think they are limited to you.

Tony Evans

LifeWomenOpportunityVisionMen

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'

Michelle Gomez

MyselfBeginningMeSayingBelieve

Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I should finish something and go home with dirt in my fingernails, because then you really feel that you've done something.

Michael Keaton

HomeFeelHandsYouSaidDone

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

Dennis Cardoza

ServiceSupportBelieveFishGoal

University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government.

Doug LaMalfa

StyleGovernmentManagementForward

I am almost neurotically private myself. Because I think it's an important distinction to make between privacy and public sphere.

Christoph Waltz

MyselfI AmThinkPrivacyImportant

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