J.G. Farrell Quotes

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just have the appetite of a pigeon.

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

I was very much of a tomboy.

Treat each class as if it were your first.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.

She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave.

If we only knew the real value of a day.

The live concert industry has become corporate-ized.

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

Eating a healthy diet is not just about eating a few special foods. There's a bigger picture. You need to practice moderation, eat a variety of foods, and get enough physical activity.

The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative. It's just good, strong, modern music.

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom.

Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you....you deserve it. Same goes for employees too.

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.

The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.

Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.