David Farr Quotes

I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.

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• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Car

• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Long
  • Man
  • Political

• I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Food
  • Cook
  • Allergies

• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Healthy
  • Eating
  • Meat

• When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • God
  • Why

• When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Compassion

• Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Started

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving
  • Diet

• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Broken
  • Friendships

• I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.

  

  Florence Green
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Need
  • Criminal
  • Hunt

• When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • People
  • Culture
  • Player

• You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Baby

• People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Want
  • Community

• India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Country

• Just remember that it’s your effort that’s going to really bring it together for you…. You will be happy because you will have then realized and fulfilled the destiny. That little speck, then will have become everything because it will have merged with infinity. It will have merged with the most incredible, most indescribable thing there is!

  

  Prem Rawat
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Happy

• In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Passion

• Every child deserves to attend school in a safe, supportive environment where they can learn, thrive, and grow.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • School
  • Environment

• A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Writer
  • Possibility
  • Souls

• I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.

  

  David Farr