Sarah Lancashire Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.”
-- Sarah Lancashire

#Depression Quotes #Writing Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.”
-- Sarah Lancashire

Source : "Sarah Lancashire says her latest role has had a much bigger impact than Corrie's Raquel". Interview with Steve Myall, November 19, 2013.

#Love Is Quotes #How You Feel Quotes #Matter Quotes

“You know when a script is good but you don't have any knowledge how visually it is going to look. When this [Happy Valley] came out and I saw the first episode and thought it was terrific.”
-- Sarah Lancashire

Source : Source: thekillingtimestv.wordpress.com

#Valleys Quotes #Looks Quotes #Scripts Quotes

“I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous.”
-- Sarah Lancashire

Source : Source: thekillingtimestv.wordpress.com

“I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.”

“Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.”

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory”

“This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.”

“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins

“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”

“What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.”

“Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.”

“Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.59, Faber & Faber

“We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.”