Albir Kamo Quotes & Sayings

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life. — Mo'Nique

In most companies, the corporate mentality is if you're over 30, you're on the downhill side, and if you're over 40, you're brain dead. Or, if you're over 30 or 40 and you've been doing it for a while, you've got experience and you want to be paid for that experience. — Mike Royer

The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating ? - those are the things that determine what happens ... — Howard Zinn

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there. — Nellie McKay

I didn't just see a child in my dreams - I felt it in my heart. — Seth Adam Smith

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess. — H.G.Wells

I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself. — James Lovelock

I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me. — Gerald Jampolsky

You'll only fall if you doubt your balance. — Willa Okati

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go. — Armando Iannucci

Politics is all about getting and keeping power, and in politics, the professionals in the business soon learn that the only way to get and keep power is to force people to talk to them. A full-time legislature thinks of more and more things to regulate and discuss. — Ray Haynes

It is a masterpiece,' said Jules Fougler. 'I hope you will prove yourself worthy of it, Peter. It is the kind of play that depends upon what the members of the audience are capable of bringing with them into the theater. If you are one of those literal-minded people, with a dry soul and a limited imagination, it is not for you. But if you are a real human being with a big, big heart full of laughter, who has preserved the uncorrupted capacity of his childhood for pure emotion-you will find it an unforgettable experience. — Ayn Rand

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters. — Jane Gardam

I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of the characters. — Nicolas Winding Refn