Neil Jordan (Neil Patrick Jordan) Quotes
And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.
Quotes to Explore
-
Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
-
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
-
The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
-
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
-
I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
-
I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
-
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
-
I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
-
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
-
The Rock will always come back to us.
-
I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
-
It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
-
People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
-
I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
-
I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.
-
In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.
-
I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.
-
I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that's exactly what I've done. I've enjoyed every moment.
-
Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
-
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
-
I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?''
-
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
-
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
-
And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.
