Quotes about Things, page 13

It was a little scary because a similar thing had happened with Fountain City, the failed novel, all sorts of disparate themes running together; in that book I trusted my instincts but it didn't work. I couldn't get it to hang together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about things

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

Quote by Michael Chabon about things

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Quote by Michael Chabon about things

Those things tend not to get reprinted. It's nice to be able to give them another chance at life by putting them on the web.

Quote by Michael Chabon about things

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Quote by Agatha Christie about things

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

Quote by Bette Davis about things

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Quote by Agatha Christie about things

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Quote by Agatha Christie about things

You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

Quote by Bette Davis about things

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.

Quote by Julie Christie about things

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back! '

Quote by Geena Davis about things

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

Quote by Julie Christie about things

This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.

Quote by Geena Davis about things

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

Quote by Geena Davis about things

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about things

I realized if I was going to speak publicly as an actor, then I had a responsibility to talk not only about myself, but about things that I believed were being lied about.

Quote by Julie Christie about things

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

Quote by Julie Christie about things

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

Quote by Julie Christie about things

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

Quote by Julie Christie about things

The world of ecology, the idea that every single thing is related to everything else and that everything anybody does has an effect on the world-I began to see the world in a way I hadn't before.

Quote by Julie Christie about things