Saffron Burrows Quotes

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

Saffron Burrows

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 1, 1973

Topics

LifeDoingSillyWonderSometimes

Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.

Jenny Nimmo

MeWorldInspirationAround

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

John Fowles

WomenGreatMenRelationshipsSee

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

SleepEqualityLawRichBridges

A good theoretical account must explain all of the evidence that we see. If it doesn't work everywhere, we have no idea what we are talking about, and all is chaos.

Angus Deaton

WorkGoodChaosTalkingExplainSee

The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.

Johnny Carson

PowerMindAttentionYouRealize

Atari is a very sad story.

Steve Wozniak

SadStoryVeryAtariSad Story

One of my most persistent, long-term fantasy wishes is not that I could fly or become invisible, but that I could make sound recording be invented decades or even centuries earlier than it was, so I could hear what people in the 1830s or 1750s actually sounded like.

Tom Reiss

PeopleFlyWishesFantasyBecome

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Mary Pickford

TechnologyLipstickMoviesSound

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

MotherMeRememberSeeingSheOpera

My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.

Mike McCready

TomorrowMindKindBandAlwaysOver

The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World.

Jose Rizal

WorldNewIndiansLikeNew World

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.

Douglas Adams

WorkTimeFunEffortEndWorth

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