Quotes About Simplicity

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

Make content that makes you happy. Do whatever you want. Don't run after expensive things. Good content and subject will get you viewers.

Talking points aren't going to help the viewers understand something better. They're about as useful as bumper sticker slogans.

I'm finally having my TV removed and replaced by a tropical fish tank, which I hope will provide more interesting viewing.

I don't need to move to the States; I love our little village, Ibstock.

I grew up in a mud house, in a small village.

I come from a small village.

I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.

There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.

My parents were simpletons. Everyday living was a big thing in that small village where I was born. They had no clue about music.

One day, I'll disappear and hide in a corner of Britain. I'll own a bakery in a village, live above it, have a big garden because I like mowing. I want to get up when I feel like it, let people queue for my products, and when they're gone, shut the shop and think about tomorrow. Creating magic - that's my dream. And I'll do it.

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.

Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy.

I should not romanticize the simplicity of a village. For instance, the place from where I used to buy a packet of glucose biscuits in my village is now selling cellphones.

I grew up in a small village outside of Krakow, and when I was small we had only a small television, and we had only one and two programs. I remember it was black and white. And I loved to watch Charlie Chaplin. I was so small, but I remember his movement.

We're not designed to know hundreds of people - we're designed to know four people in our village. So the only way we can know hundreds of people is by reducing them to a stamp of their identity.

My mother comes from a small village on the Lac de Neuchatel where there is one bakery, one butcher and one grocery store. Even after decades in New York, she prefers home cooking to ordering in.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

I don't have any romantic notions about villages.

It makes me so happy to see that there's still so much innocence left in villages.

I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.

I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.