Rufus Wainwright
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet. MORRIS CHESTNUT It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me! WILLIAM WYLER I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX MICHAEL PHELPS As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out the... DONTRELLE WILLIS DAN STEVENS DEMI MOORE Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH LEA MICHELE From the core, I'm a shy person, but when I'm on stage, I know how to put it aside. Of cours... LEON BRIDGES In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But ... JANUARY JONES The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out t... ADAM LAMBERT I'm actually quite good at being friends with my exes. I'm friends with almost everyone. In ... ELLA EYRE ROY AYERS I think I'm a really good girlfriend, and I think that I could be a really good wife. I know tha... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT RUFUS WAINWRIGHT DUANE G. CAREY ROBERT GRIFFIN III HIDEO KOJIMA REY MYSTERIO ROBERT REDFORD ELVIS PRESLEY KEKE PALMER KATY PERRY GARY OLDMAN As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do ... BLAKE FARENTHOLD I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for ... AL YANKOVIC I can't do any more 'Peep Show' because of my loyalties in Los Angeles to 'Two And A... SOPHIE WINKLEMAN VENUS WILLIAMS I love lifestyle stuff, I love housewares. I'm really a homebody, honestly. Anything to do with ... KELIS MARILYN MONROE SOULJA BOY JASON RITTER SEBASTIAN FAULKS I'm at my most comfortable out on the pitch when I'm in front of goal with the ball at my fe... HARRY KANE MARILYN MONROE I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose i... QUENTIN BLAKE LOUIS THEROUX JOSH RADNOR ERIC BOGOSIAN REBECCA HALL CHRIS PINE CHRIS EVANS KENDALL JENNER I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN People are very appreciative, and I'm always thrilled at how long the 'Morse' films have... KEVIN WHATELY LYNNE DOUGHTIE DIMEBAG DARRELL OLIVIA WILDE JUSTINE SKYE For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public,... FLUME About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS RICK RIORDAN I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws... CHARLES NELSON REILLY It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there be... JOSH BOWMAN DAVID GEST MICHAEL KEATON I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the ... IAN THORPE I'm a pretty aggressive girl in general. So if there's a boy that I like, you're going t... BETTY WHO JACK WHITE I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my Go... PAULA RADCLIFFE I'm never going to be a flat-line guy. My heart is going to be on my sleeve with every shot. BILLY HORSCHEL I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt. TINA YOTHERS I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect ... SUSAN CHOI Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea ho... BRUCE VILANCH CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fi... RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my ... CARMELO ANTHONY LUCAS TILL COLIN KAEPERNICK RAFAEL NADAL With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is ... ALEXANDRA SHIPP It's amazing to be able to play the sport that I grew up loving so much and that I have a strong... REGGIE BUSH MICHELLE OBAMA BRIAN GREENE I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I gue... EMMA ROBERTS If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actu... MARTI NOXON I've loved being in legislative office on a state level, and I think on a federal level there ar... GRACE MENG DIANA ROSS I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural sta... HUGH GRANT AMY SEDARIS VIKRAM SETH I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go i... NOOMI RAPACE AGNES GUND KELLY ROWLAND LISA EDELSTEIN When I go in the studio, I put myself into a place where I'm feeling something I want to portray... JAMIE XX TED TURNER JO BRAND EDIE BRICKELL CARRIE FISHER MARIA SHARAPOVA ALLEN IVERSON ALANA STEWART STEVE MARTIN
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ANNELI RUFUS Life is like a box of chocolates, it mostly tastes like shit. RUFUS RHODEN There are two kinds of people I don't like being around, stupid people and ugly people. I guess that... RUFUS RHODEN RUFUS CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE Good or evil? It's really just a matter of perspective. RUFUS RHODEN The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the ... RUFUS JONES Feast of Mark the Evangelist The reason why we can hope to find God is that He is here, engaged al... RUFUS JONES ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS ALLAN RUFUS They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does - when you can't get enough of it. ANNELI RUFUS Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob ... ANNELI RUFUS I'd like an omelet named after me. RUFUS SEWELL When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so m... RUFUS SEWELL Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I&#... RUFUS SEWELL I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got ... RUFUS SEWELL ALLAN RUFUS I think if you lower the limits on money it would encourage our elected officials to get into their ... RUFUS JONES The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
[Lat., Efficacior omni arte immine... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sed... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
[Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subes... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an
unchangeable law through the eternal ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
[Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum inc... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mor... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one
cautious enough to resist the effects of ... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting;
gratitude for benefits eternal.
[Lat.,... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS But few prize honour more than money. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntu... QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainl... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I we... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school. LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego ... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sens... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destr... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit lik... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS RUFUS M. JONES QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS RUFUS M. JONES Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our ... GENERAL JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT A book is the only immortality. RUFUS CHOATE EDWARD YOUNG
I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decisi... 
I'm shocked at being recognized. 
I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I... 
I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-... 
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. ... 
'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience. 
Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with. 
Every time I step out on that field, I'm 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I&#... 
As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I p... 
I've never had any prima donna attitude against me. It's always been very respectful. 
I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my proper... 
There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out. 
I'm happy with who I am inside. I'd hate to have accolades and all that and not really be ha... 
I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not o... 
I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as... 
The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my rank... 
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole ... 
Now that I'm in the position I'm in now, I like to take all my creative ideas and put 'e... 
There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of h... 
My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm fi... 
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on ... 
I really do try not to emote. I don't like seeing it on documentaries - it seems a bit unprofess... 
But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have so... 
The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's ... 
It doesn't matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don'... 
I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don'... 
I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-m... 
I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career ... 
I think there's a tendency with some women especially to internalize and think, 'I have to b... 
As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhyth... 
I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to ... 
I'm confident in who I am, and I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm just being myself: bein... 
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... 
I'm really excited that I'm able to work again. 
I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes. 
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ... 
I have an organic garden and love being able to say, 'I'm going to see what I can pick to th... 
I'm sure there are some haters out there, but I just put my blinders on. 
This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because... 
Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the s... 
Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stres... 
In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I... 
I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and fo... 
I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'... 
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work. 
I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall t... 
I'm careful with my heart. I don't take crap from no one these days. I put my foot down. Bei... 
For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather m... 
I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'. 
We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if ... 
I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical. 
I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a... 
I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out. 
I'm the biggest Westbrook fan, I think, there is. You know what I mean? Because he reminds me so... 
In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with al... 
I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'Th... 
Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the stor... 
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. 
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. 
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I
keep step to the music of the Unio... 
Life is like a sandwich!
Life is like a game of chess.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate lov... 
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Fear makes men believe the worst. 
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. 
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites