Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

Kathryn Bigelow

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• Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Want
  • Never
  • Box

• I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Story
  • Tell
  • Miss

• I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • School
  • Job

• The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Trouble
  • Year
  • Artists

• In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Me
  • End

• I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Single
  • Air

• I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Done
  • Feel
  • Period

• I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Long
  • Bear
  • Bull

• I can live without football. There are more important things in life.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moment

• Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Words

• The sea returns upon the men, The fields entrap the children, brick Is a weed and all the flies are caught, Wingless and withered, but living alive. The discord merely magnified. Deeper within the belly's dark Of time, time grows upon the rock.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Men
  • Children

• Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Evil
  • Prince
  • Bubbles

• Mr. Jefferson meant the white race.

  

  Andrew Johnson

• Not a red rose or a satin heart.I give you an onion.It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.It promises lightlike the careful undressing of love...I am trying to be truthful.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Red

• Me still alone, me sip on the rum Me wonder when the boat she come To bring me love, oh sweet little thing She rock 'n' roll, she dance and sing She hold me tight, she touch me lips Me eyes they close, me heart she flip Havana moon, Havana moon

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Heart
  • She
  • Alone

• I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Society
  • Lies

• One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Football

• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.

  

  Charles Alexander Eastman
  • Important
  • Success
  • Religion

• We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Imagination

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

  

  Eric Maskin
  • Small
  • Progress

• I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow