Rufus Wainwright
Related I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doi... CANDIS CAYNE United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an... JOHN ASTIN I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn'... LEAH REMINI GARY WRIGHT I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, ... BARRY JENKINS MAGGIE SMITH CHRIS EVANS I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the m... DANIEL JOHNSTON I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, ... MARGARET KEANE This was about the CD. First time, you know. I was a little nervous at first, but once I got up ther... BEN BROUSSARD BILL PAXTON The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being... MANIKA KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so... ANNE-MARIE DUFF JOAN COLLINS CHRISTINE MCVIE CHARLES KURALT When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank f... CHELAN SIMMONS STEVE SCALISE MICHAEL PHELPS It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen as... HELGE INGSTAD Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something ... D. J. COTRONA I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to ac... DREE HEMINGWAY 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a speci... CARLTON CUSE 'The Voice' gave me the exposure that YouTube was never able to provide for me, just because... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write... JULIANA HATFIELD EMMA WATSON MARILYN MONROE I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, a... LINDSAY PEARCE QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II GARY WRIGHT STEPHEN LABERGE I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic wa... CHARLIE HADEN My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground... RONNIE DUNN TOM WATSON I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on... CAROLINE CORR I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I ha... JASON SCHWARTZMAN PAUL SAMUELSON KEVYN AUCOIN PAULA DANZIGER When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experie... EDWARD BURNS I was there at all the races. Terry just kind of was, you know, like a father figure there. He just ... TONY RAINES I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West E... JAMIE CULLUM PETE CARROLL I was 12 years old, so auditioning for a TV show was something I didn't even think really happen... SHAWN ROBERTS At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camer... PARMINDER NAGRA Signing up for 'It Follows,' I didn't have any idea it was going to turn out the way it ... MAIKA MONROE I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experi... DAVID ROBERTS HELENA BONHAM CARTER PRINCE WILLIAM PRINCESS DIANA CATHERINE THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS
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I still think of myself as a starter.... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I think I can do way better. I'm not real pleased with today. I got out of some situations and pitch... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I think the years of toiling around in the minors have really helped. ADAM WAINWRIGHT Today, I really struggled staying back on the rubber and getting the ball down. But when I did, you ... ADAM WAINWRIGHT It was nice of Jason to let me start that game. He didn't have to let me do that. It was nice to get... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I try to not to think about the pressure. I don't want any more pressure on me. I just want to pitch... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I learned a lot from him. ADAM WAINWRIGHT I go in thinking about whatever they'll let me do at the big-league level. You never know what happe... ADAM WAINWRIGHT For the most part my year went pretty good. I had a couple abysmal starts that really ruined my stat... ADAM WAINWRIGHT If I play a bad round, which I've been having lately, Mulder will let me have it. I've heard his who... ADAM WAINWRIGHT JOHN WAINWRIGHT The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man'... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT I love stuff as much as the next guy, but Ive come to understand that, regardless of the cost of a... COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even th... COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Even the great get greater by doing more of it. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Reading is no substitute for action. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works. COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT That's probably how dentistry was in the 1800s, before they had anesthetics. That's how I felt. JERRY WAINWRIGHT We're not mature enough yet. But to be 7-4 [with our strong] schedule ... speaks an awful lot about ... JERRY WAINWRIGHT I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying th... MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he ... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT We never gave ourselves a chance to win. But I don't think we have despair in our game; it's frustra... JERRY WAINWRIGHT Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth... ADAM WAINWRIGHT Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done t... JERRY WAINWRIGHT They humbled us on the glass. JERRY WAINWRIGHT The game was dictated at the free-throw line. You can't miss 11 and win at this level. JERRY WAINWRIGHT Sammy played 38 minutes against their best player and never once [complained]. He did everything we ... JERRY WAINWRIGHT You're going to be in front of full arenas from now on. I think you have to make that another whole ... JERRY WAINWRIGHT There are some incredible swings this season. More so than I've ever seen. JERRY WAINWRIGHT They're (Wake Forest) going to have a terrific year, and obviously this is a great confidence builde... JERRY WAINWRIGHT The only thing I would say is that when you play Wake, you have to pick your poison. We tried to clo... JERRY WAINWRIGHT The biggest thing, when you play teams like this, you've got to stand in the middle of the ring. You... JERRY WAINWRIGHT His ankle is really not swollen, but we have to get it evaluated, both he and Marlon. JERRY WAINWRIGHT Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'! W.O. WAINWRIGHT I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced m... MARTHA WAINWRIGHT I certainly hope it will do what people say that it will do, WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. ... 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ANNELI RUFUS People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got ... RUFUS SEWELL Well, thing is, after they cancelled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that ... RUFUS SEWELL We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Ov... ANNELI RUFUS It has been said 'keep your friends close and your enemies closer'. This statement is most assuredly... RUFUS RHODEN This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control. RUFUS KING I'm not crazy, I'm sanity challenged. RUFUS RHODEN I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I ... RUFUS SEWELL We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called.... ANNELI RUFUS And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the ... 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
The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the ... 
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt... 
There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fractur... 
I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to re... 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I wa... 
I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou... 
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got th... 
I knew I was shot. Didn't know how bad it was. You know, in a weird way, your body kind of goes ... 
There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't int... 
When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which wa... 
When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I did... 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... 
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... 
I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place wit... 
From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be... 
My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the prof... 
My family was well off but not rich. I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the be... 
I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes ... 
I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and... 
I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But w... 
When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn... 
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... 
Family is the most important thing in the world. 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
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. 
My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed. 
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... 
We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution. 
Life is like a sandwich!
Life is like a game of chess.
A book is the only immortality. 
I wish you all
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. 
Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 The great wonder is ...