Top 24 Horrocks Quotes
#1. I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#2. The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
Maya Angelou
#3. Five-hundred-fifty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents worth of Christmas decorations.
Heather Horrocks
#4. My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.
Jane Horrocks
#5. My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.
Jane Horrocks
#6. I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.
Jane Horrocks
#7. I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.
Jane Horrocks
#9. I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.
Jane Horrocks
#10. I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.
Jane Horrocks
#11. Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.
Jane Horrocks
#12. Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.
Jane Horrocks
#13. Risk is important to me as a writer, reader, and editor. I love stories that take a premise or style that seems unlikely to succeed, whose first paragraphs risk a raised eyebrow or groan, and whose last paragraphs are then all that much sweeter a triumph. Basically, I love being proved wrong.
Caitlin Horrocks
#14. I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying ... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.
Jane Horrocks
#15. Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
Giraldus Cambrensis
#16. I have always regarded the forward edge of the battlefield as the most exclusive club in the world
Brian Horrocks
#17. I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.
Jane Horrocks
#18. Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be.
Lt General Brian Horrocks
#19. Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
Tim Harford
#20. I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in
Murray Walker
#21. Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.
Jane Horrocks
#22. When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound.
Jane Horrocks
#23. Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out ... are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.
Naomi Wolf
