Sarah Waters The Paying Guests Quotes & Sayings

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment. — Jason Reitman

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels. — Sarah Waters

Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation. — Mary Heilmann

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between? — Robert Musil

The establishment of the state of Israel is not the result of the Holocaust. It is almost a result of the fact that the Holocaust was not totally successful. — Yehuda Bauer

Most of the people ... they say gays are born that way and it has been ... proven ... That is a lie. That's what's called a lie. It is not true. There is no definitive scientific study that has ever proved that homosexuality is innate — Scott Lively

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. — Irving Berlin

I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate. — Charlotte Ross

I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen. — Dorie Greenspan

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons. — Anna Kavan

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to sing for our supper ... The Cold War is over. You can't simply say "Russia!" to Congress, and they whip out their checkbook and say, "How much?" We have to tell the people why this atom-smasher is going to benefit their lives. — Michio Kaku

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women. — Sophocles