Margaret Forster Quotes

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

Margaret Forster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 25, 1938

Topics

PeopleTalkWonderfulSomething

Before every show, I eat half a rotisserie chicken.

John Legend

ChickenEatHalfShowBeforeEvery

Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in history. It's a question of perspective: The further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.

Maurizio Cattelan

GoodHistoryArtPerspectivePast

He who does not want does not act.

Robert Green Ingersoll

WantActWhoHeDoes

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

Matt Dillon

MyselfHollywoodConvictionsBeliefs

Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.

Amy J. Berg

GoalsPowerEndYouFilmmakingTalk

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

Tom Hanks

OpportunityCollegeWaitThoughtYou

I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me in that bare fact by writing an intelligent review.

Michelle Dean

MeWritingBookCareIntelligent

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

DeathManTragedyStatisticMillions

When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

Conor Oberst

LifePeopleMeWritingMy LifeTry

I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

Cliff Robertson

BadGoMoviesNothingFilmBeen

The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

Shawn Achor

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There is a crisis on the Right. It sees the Jewish and democratic state as a democracy for the Jews. This is something I cannot countenance.

Reuven Rivlin

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