Randa Haines Quotes
There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
-
I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
-
Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
-
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
-
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
-
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
-
I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
-
I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
-
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
-
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
-
When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
-
My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
-
I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
-
I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
-
It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
-
I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
-
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
-
Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
-
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
-
I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.
-
I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.
-
Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
-
There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
