Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: September 25, 1969

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GoodSchoolDoingYouGoBrilliant

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

Joe Jamail

EqualityFightingBadProfessional

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

Jhumpa Lahiri

WritingBookWantNeverDealOnce

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

Jessica Savitch

MotherBeginningMeHerReporter

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

Jenny Lewis

WriteAlwaysEverythingFictionBit

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

Stephen Sondheim

WritingStartYouKnowWayWell

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

Stan Musial

ForwardYouBackKnowImportantUp

I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn't realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn't remember it.

Michelle Paver

LoveLiveGirlAgeSimplePast

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

Michelle Paver

FireMeStorySparkFeelYou

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

Mojo Nixon

MeFastNowStageSomethingGot

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

BetterHelpSeekingThanAfterwards

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'

Peter Tosh

FatherMotherTimeManMeGuitar

I love the idea of the sartorial mix of fatigues and a great blazer.

Nick Wooster

LoveGreatBlazerIdeaMixI Love

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