Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Arthur Baer: Good neighbour
“A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesnt climb over it.” —Arthur Baer.
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Andy Samberg: Fart jokes
“If you let go of fart jokes, you’ve let go of a piece of humanity.” —Andy Samberg.
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Woodrow Wilson: Great army
“I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.” —Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, Nobel laureate (28 Nov 1856-1924).
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John Henry Newman: Nothing would be done
“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.” —John Henry Newman, theologian.
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Dick Van Dyke: No wives to advise them
“Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.” —Dick Van Dyke.
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Stephen Hawking: Science
“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.” —Stephen Hawking.
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C J Samsom: No healthy thing
“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.” —C.J. Sansom.
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Stephen Fry: Temperance is wickedness
“Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.” —Stephen Fry.
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Anna Burns: Rogue community
“According to the police, of course, our community was a rogue community. It was we who were the enemy, we who were the terrorists, the civilian terrorists, the associates of terrorists or simply individuals suspected of being but not yet discovered to be terrorists. That being the case, and understood by both parties to be…
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Sally Rooney: Political adjudication
“You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.” —Sally Rooney.
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Gail Honeyman: Random acts of kindness
“We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.” —Gail Honeyman.
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Lee Child: Plain common sense
“I’m opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it’s plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.” —Lee Child.
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Taylor Swift: Common-sense thing
“I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.” —Taylor Swift.
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Julia Roberts: Out loud
“If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.” —Julia Roberts.
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Elvis Presley: Adversity versus prosperity
“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.” —Elvis Presley.
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Susan Boyle: Enough people
“There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don’t need to do that to yourself.” —Susan Boyle, The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story.
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Howard Marks: Patterns
“This effort to explain life through the recognition of patterns—and thus to come up with winning formulas—is complicated, in large part, because we live in a world that is beset by randomness and in which people don’t behave the same from one instance to the next, even when they intend to. The realization that past…
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Glenn Close: Don’t mess with me
“The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It’s my way of saying, Don’t mess with me.” —Glenn Close.
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Robert De Niro: Real situation, real human behavior
“In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.” —Robert De Niro.
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Jim Carrey: Desperation
“I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.” —Jim Carrey.
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Emma Stone: Improv
“You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.” —Emma Stone.
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Angelina Jolie: Interviewing
“I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing…
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Kevin Spacey: Risk takers
“I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.” —Kevin Spacey.
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Baltasar Gracian: Always leave something to wish for
“Always leave something to wish for, otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.” —Baltasar Gracian.
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Simon Sinek: Remarkable
“When we give expecting nothing in return, it is remarkable how much more others will give back to us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dorothy Sayers: Repugnant
“What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.” —Dorothy Sayers, writer.
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Marcel Proust: Family traits
“The more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.” —Marcel Proust.
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Jodie Comer: False representation of women
“I think, in history, we often see a false representation of women. The men are always the successors and, supposedly, of their own merit, which I don’t believe to be to true.” —Jodie Comer.
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Simon Sinek: Opportunities off the plan
“When we’re obsessed with the plan, we miss all the opportunities that exist off the plan.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charlize Theron: Watch that constantly
“When they watch a movie and they know that you’re in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.” —Charlize Theron.
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Sandra Oh: Free from chatter
“It takes a long time to free oneself from chatter – goals, social media, image, persona. And if you’re able to move through in that way, you can actually start trying to create from a different place.” —Sandra Oh.
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G K Chesterton: Strange fanaticism
“A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.” —G K Chesterton.
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Michelle Obama: Commitment
“If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.” —Michelle Obama.
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Rachel Brosnahan: Only you
“You are the only you. That means you don’t lose roles to anybody else. There’s no competition, so they either want you or they don’t want you, and it’s not that they wanted someone else over you.” —Rachel Brosnahan.
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Timothee Chalamet: Fine balance
“I do find that there’s a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally.” —Timothee Chalamet.
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Ben Stiller: Old saying in Hollywood
“There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.” —Ben Stiller.
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Constance Wu: Public service
“Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.” —Constance Wu.
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Richard Gere: Bravery
“I don’t think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.” —Richard Gere.
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Halle Berry: The first step
“The first step is clearly defining what it is you’re after, because without knowing that, you’ll never get it.” —Halle Berry.
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Olivia Colman: Demand equality and kindness
“I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It’s what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.” —Olivia Colman.
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Harrison Ford: Presence of justice
“Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.” —Harrison Ford.
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Warren Buffett: Unrecognized concentrations of risk
“When things go bad, all kinds of things correlate that no one ever dreamed correlated…. And there’s nothing more deadly than unrecognized concentrations of risk, but it happens all the time.” —Warren Buffett.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones: Words impress me
“Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.” —Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Michael Douglas: Like a lovely orchid
“Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that’s nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it’s ignored, it withers.” —Michael Douglas.
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Irina Shayk: Mutual respect
“Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.” —Irina Shayk.
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Jeff Bridges: Just pretending
“A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.” —Jeff Bridges.
