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
  • Contend

• 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

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• 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

• Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Remember
  • Attention

• These tensions, and the trade situation, are not supportive to any of the players in aerospace, we don't think we'll be losing more than the other guys in that situation, but we think it should be resolved in one way or another that enables global businesses like aviation to continue to grow.

  

  Guillaume Faury
  • Situation
  • Grow
  • Aviation

• The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Soul

• I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Money

• I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students.

  

  John Callen
  • Writing

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

  

  David Farr