Neil Jordan (Neil Patrick Jordan) Quotes

In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

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• I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Feel
  • Story
  • Very

• Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Try
  • Gentleman
  • To Be

• Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Experience
  • Political
  • Blind

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
  • Love
  • Difficult

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• 'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Female

• And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • First
  • Flight
  • Backup

• Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Death
  • Day
  • Child

• My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • Legacy
  • Sport

• I've always imagined myself doing well, whatever I did.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Doing

• I've never abandoned the novel.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Never
  • Novel
  • Abandoned

• In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Space

• Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Camera
  • Caught
  • Banned

• It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Social

• I only understand realism.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Understand
  • Only
  • Realism

• So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Audience
  • Show
  • Excitement

• Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I want people to think of me as a 'Mindset' guy, a journalist, a commentator, a social media personality, a filmmaker, an author, but I got to - I have to pivot so far away from anything pro-Trump, I just got to keep going that way.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Author
  • Away
  • Filmmaker

• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Story
  • Knowing

• I think a lot of it has to do with the trade deadline being over. Guys are comfortable now that they?re going to be here.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Guys
  • Trade
  • Deadline

• In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

  

  Neil Jordan