Chris O'Dowd Quotes

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

Chris O'Dowd

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• We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Walk
  • No Regrets

• For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Career
  • Man
  • Fear

• You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Parents
  • Will
  • Utterly

• We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • American
  • Technology

• Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Time
  • May
  • Words

• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Think
  • Now

• The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Life
  • Real
  • Father

• I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Years
  • Race
  • Five

• I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mean
  • Genius
  • Chickens

• First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Country

• Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought. So for me, I welcome it and look straight into it as something to learn from.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Energy
  • Thought
  • Child

• I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Age
  • Woman
  • Represent

• Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • Progress

• The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Christian
  • Sin
  • Conviction

• There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.

  

  Caroline Gordon
  • Great
  • Age
  • Purpose

• Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Reality
  • Small
  • Reality TV

• I still miss my first car. Not a glamorous ride, but I must've put 60,000 miles in road trips on that thing.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • Car
  • Road

• The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

  

  Chris O'Dowd