David Farr Quotes

Most Robin Hood stories are not very exciting. There are not a lot of surprises.

David Farr

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• Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Opinion

• I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • End

• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • City
  • Play

• John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Me
  • Looks
  • Fraud

• Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Hair

• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • Page
  • Spark

• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Art
  • Fear

• I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Up
  • Real
  • Trying

• I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Boxing
  • Obsessed
  • Jiu jitsu

• When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Road

• I think an ethical lawyer would absolutely refuse, if he or she had knowledge that this is the purpose for which her work would be used, that is, to conceal a fraudulent scheme from federal regulators.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Work
  • She
  • Knowledge

• The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Suffering

• Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Political
  • Past
  • Eyes

• I have not spoken to him directly. Here's the reason. Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he's gonna say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Experience
  • Guy
  • Words

• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Real

• As long as offices are open to all men and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Men
  • Long

• I'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not - it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you - you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Good
  • Writing

• About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Time
  • Business

• I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

  

  Jeri Ryan
  • Up
  • Star
  • Driving

• In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.

  

  Piper Perabo
  • Different

• When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Experience
  • Unique
  • Green

• The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Up
  • Game
  • Hood

• The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Real
  • Hood

• Most Robin Hood stories are not very exciting. There are not a lot of surprises.

  

  David Farr
  • Hood