Neil Jordan (Neil Patrick Jordan) Quotes

It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

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• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.

  

  Faye Marsay
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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
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• I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
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• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
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• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
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• If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.

  

  Ferid Murad
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• I do everything in a straightforward manner.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
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• I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

  

  Zosia Mamet
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• As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
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• I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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• It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.

  

  Natassia Malthe
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• One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.

  

  Carlos Beruff
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  • Career

• I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
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• Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

  

  Brett Eldredge
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• All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

  

  Maynard Webb
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• It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

  

  Jane Austen
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• It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

  

  Neil Jordan
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