Bill Drayton Quotes

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

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• Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Fitness
  • Mental
  • Strengths

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Long
  • Night
  • Me

• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • King
  • Grief
  • Queen

• The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • War
  • Vision
  • Facts

• I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Movie
  • Small
  • Walking

• Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • You
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Kids

• I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Funny

• I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Know

• The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Sleep
  • Sea
  • Wind

• Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Book
  • Red

• People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Action
  • Tired

• A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

  

  Jason Silva
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Nude scenes aren't fun.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Fun

• There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

  

  Chris Klein

• A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

  

  Jerry Rubin

• I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Black
  • Girl

• After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Black
  • Names
  • Loyalty

• Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Happiness

• If you're in a commercial studio, you've got to be out by the end of the day, and it can be paralyzing, but if you have your own studio you move fast because you don't care. If you don't care, you can be patient, and also think fast.

  

  Nicolas Godin Air
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Care

• Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

  

  Bill Drayton