Keeley Hawes Quotes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Keeley Hawes

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• On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Light
  • Action

• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Long
  • Success
  • Leadership

• I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Like
  • Holiday
  • Too Much

• I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Time
  • Action
  • Wish

• I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Day
  • Kind

• There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • Time
  • Action
  • Doubt

• NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • History
  • Romantic

• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Up
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Way
  • Action
  • Far

• When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
  • Movie

• I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Up
  • Live
  • Action

• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Restorer

• You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Time
  • Great
  • Light

• Pseudo‑events do, of course, increase our illusion of grasp on the world, what some have called the American illusion of omnipotence. Perhaps, we come to think, the world’s problems can really be settled by 'statements,' by 'Summit' meetings, by a competition of 'prestige,' by overshadowing images, and by political quiz shows.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • World
  • American
  • Political

• I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Holiday