David A. Stewart Quotes

I like people who are minimalist with their words. Jack Nicholson thinks a lot then says something, and it's always spot on. Nelson Mandela is the same.

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• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Pretty
  • Kind
  • Play

• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Beauty

• I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Song

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Experience
  • You
  • Control

• This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Great
  • Hunger

• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Me
  • Start

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • You
  • Saying

• I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Team
  • I Can

• To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Best
  • Become
  • Well-Rounded

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Men
  • Young
  • Old

• My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Parents
  • Down
  • Los Angeles

• Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Work
  • Family
  • Business

• When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Control

• I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

  

  Sergey Brin
  • People
  • Enough
  • Fiction

• ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I try to do as much as possible for every character. Some of them, it is easier to do the research because you have either real examples that you work with, maybe some specific person that inspires you in that case, or the performances from other people, or the characters, or a character from a book.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I like people who are minimalist with their words. Jack Nicholson thinks a lot then says something, and it's always spot on. Nelson Mandela is the same.

  

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