Derville Meade Quotes & Sayings

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. — Samuel Johnson

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet." — Steven Shainberg

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. — Eleonora Duse

In the Thirties all of us who were young had been united by anger and the obviousness of our plight; in the war we had been united by fear and the obviousness of the danger. But now, prosperous under the bomb, we all seemed to have become atomized. Wherever I looked I saw people trying to live private lives for themselves and their families. Nobody asked the big questions any more. Why think, when the thing to be thought about is so huge it is impossible to think about it? Why ask where you are going, when you know you can't stop even if you wish? Why ask why, when it does no good to know why? — Hugh MacLennan

He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand. — Charles Dickens

I'm the exact same person I was before (cancer). I'm still shallow, I still love clothes, I still want to talk fashion, I still want to gossip, so lay it on me. — Giuliana Rancic