Darren Aronofsky Quotes

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in.

Darren Aronofsky

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• Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Finish

• In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • People
  • True
  • Risk

• I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Different
  • Real
  • Together

• There is no accountability in soft money. None.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • Money
  • Accountability
  • Soft

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Value

• Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Light
  • Style
  • Creativity

• There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Think
  • Energy

• I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Trying
  • Me

• High expectations are the key to everything.

  

  Sam Walton
  • High
  • Leadership
  • Expectations

• People have paid for content. They always have.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Always
  • Content

• We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Some folks can look so busy doin' nothin' that they seem indispensable.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• What's your name, new best friend?

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Friend

• One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• 'Is there anyone or anything in this city which can’t be bought?' I said, slipping him a note.'Yeah,' the man said, laughing quietly. 'But I’m not it.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • City

• What am I looking at? I want to eat you like a tossed fucking salad!

  

  Andrew Dice Clay

• We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Job
  • Man
  • Better

• I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

  

  Annie Baker
  • Important

• A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Book
  • Happy
  • Value

• Hopefully I've given something back to darts, which has been brilliant to me. Hopefully I made it a bit popular when I first started; I was part of the breakaway, and I also created a monster, so I think I've done a little bit.

  

  Eric Bristow
  • Done
  • Popular
  • Monster

• I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • World

• Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in.

  

  Darren Aronofsky