Cecil Balmond Quotes

#1. I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.

Xavier Dolan

#2. I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.

Paul Banks

#3. My own opinion is that if I keep juggling, then all the balls will stay in the air and my comeuppance will never come down, however richly deserved.

Mark Lawrence

#4. I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

Cecil Balmond

#5. There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

Douglas Preston

#6. I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Michael Schenker

#7. We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

Mandy Patinkin

#8. I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

Perry Brass

#9. We all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it affordable? Yes. Cheap? No. I want to pay the farmers the right price for food. They deserve it. They are the most important people in the country besides our teachers.

Alice Waters

#10. Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.

Cecil Balmond

#11. I have a job, a life." "I want to be your life.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#12. Faith cannot save you from the claims of reason, except insofar as it preserves and protects that wonderful, terrible time when reason, if only for a moment, lost its claim on you.

Christian Wiman

#13. The abstract has no emotional content ... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

Cecil Balmond