Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

Helena Bonham Carter

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In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

Matt Taibbi

ThinkAmericaYouCountryTwoYears

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Meryl Streep

MyselfSomeoneFindingActingBeing

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Stanley Crouch

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Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.

Stacy London

ConstructionBelieveBetterMoreFew

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Tony Kushner

PatienceArtPoliticsRevolution

I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?

Mike Wallace

WorkTimeMeLovedYoungQuit

Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file.

Mike Davidson

GoodSimpleSupportBetterHideNew

A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention to the thing she's brought to evaluate.

Michelle Dean

GoodAttentionSheCriticHerClose

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

Michael Leunig

MeanEverythingBecauseFailedSort

Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Joyce Meyer

GodParentingParentsPeopleJudge

I don't really listen to the radio anymore, but some of the more contemporary people I like are Stereolab, Spiritualize, Yo La Tengo and Bedhead. There are other things too, like Pavement. They're a great band, with really good lyrics. But generally, I'm not overwhelmed by the state of indie-rock.

Dean Wareham

GoodGreatPeopleOverwhelmedRadio

I spend a little bit of time exploring why the companies that were doing smartphone ride-hailing before Uber, why they failed.

Brad Stone

TimeDoingWhyExploringLittle

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