Minette Batters Quotes & Sayings

When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought. — Sissy Spacek

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality. — Pierre Bayard

Almost unbidden, he released the safety, and his index finger slid inside the guard. — Jonathan L. Howard

Be nice. Be crazy. Be yourself. Be the ball. Don't be flat. Just B natural. Be honest. Be humble. Be thankful. Be happy ... but when in doubt, just Be. — Cliff Michaels

Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.
Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject. — Michel De Montaigne

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy. — Angelina Jolie

I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself; that should be a secret they must find out . — Joan Rivers