Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

Kathryn Bigelow

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• Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• Conformity is dangerous.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Dangerous
  • Conformity

• After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Work
  • Education
  • Health

• The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • History
  • Technology

• One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Important
  • Done
  • Service

• There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Good
  • Work
  • Victory

• To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Black
  • Individual
  • White

• Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Running
  • Down
  • Active

• I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Quality
  • Democracy
  • Achievement

• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Time
  • Space
  • Present

• Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Day
  • Golf

• And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Why

• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Poetry
  • Feelings
  • Thought

• Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Home
  • American
  • Community

• I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kids

• You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Character
  • Guy
  • You

• Und sind Sie mit mir einer Meinung, daß es die erste Bedingung zu einem Künstler sei, daß er Respekt vor dem Großen habe, und sich davor beuge, und es anerkenne, und nicht die großen Flammen auszupusten versuche, damit das kleine Talglicht ein wenig heller leuchte?

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Die

• I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Up
  • Different
  • Why

• I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Women
  • Violence

• Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • Life
  • Motivated

• There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow
  • Women