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Isabella Bird Quotes

Everyone acknowledges that dinner parties are equally dull in London and Paris, in Calcutta and in New York, unless the next neighbour happens to be peculiarly agreeable.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: explorer
Nationality: english
Birth: October 15, 1831 - October 7, 1904

Topics

New York Dinner Paris New London

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

Jesse Eisenberg

Waiting You Actor Two Being Your

My whole life, I wanted to be an actor. Perhaps the seed was planted when I saw Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien', wiping the floor with the men on the ship.

Jessica Chastain

Life Men Seed Ship Alien Actor

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

John Bercow

Politics You Conservative Hard Right

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Stokely Carmichael

Life Fear Way No Fear Secret Only

I think I had only been working nine months when I got 'Star Trek,' and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that.

Tom Hardy

Age Eyes Responsibility Think Early

In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.

Ron Livingston

Life Thoughts Opinions Know Real

I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every word that's on my album, and every word comes from a real experience or a real feeling that I've either experienced or felt. And I'm very particular about that, and I take a lot of pride in it, so you know if I say something on a song, I mean it.

Mike Posner

Music Experience Song Think Pride

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Martin Scorsese

Simple Hard Thing

I'm very much a believer in the character always heading for something or after something. But that doesn't always have to be a selfish thing - it could be an altruistic thing as well. You can't play good; you can't play evil. But you have to think: what does this person want to happen in this situation?

Monica Dolan

Good Character Evil Selfish Think

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Relationship Children Hero Cooking

I haven't watched telly for years.

Douglas Hodge

Years Watched Telly

I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.

Doug E. Fresh

Music New York Restaurant Doing New