Viv Albertine Quotes

I think young men and boys are taught to fail. It's nothing to them; they do sport, they fall over, they shout, 'I'm all right,' and carry on. But with girls, they're so appallingly embarrassed to fail, it's like it's considered unfeminine.

Viv Albertine

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MenThinkFallYoungNothingRight

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

Andrea Mitchell

JobFunToo MuchNowGetSomeday

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Robert Rauschenberg

PaintingLookingWithoutFamiliar

Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.

Maura Tierney

ComedyBe NiceSkillNiceOkayBox

If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn't even have dreamed of.

Michael Hansmeyer

ThinkProcessShortHandsCreateUs

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

Andy Serkis

CommunicationWordsPeopleThinking

Some of the people involved in ISIS are going to Iraq, and some of our young people are being radicalised through the Internet.

Tony Tan

PeopleInternetYoungYoung People

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

Tom Hiddleston

HumanityWantVirtueReflectOwn

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

Rufus Sewell

LazySayQuestionAskSameQuote

You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'

Louis C. K.

ImpossibleYouBossesCancelMany

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Jawaharlal Nehru

RiskPolicyGreatestBeingCautious

Never have lives less lived been more chronicled.

Dennis Miller

MoreNeverLivedBeenLessLives

The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.

Chris Christie

GrowthJobControlSelf-Confidence

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