David Lean Quotes

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

David Lean

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• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Man
  • Literature

• Nothing endures but personal qualities.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nothing
  • Personal
  • Brainy

• I am passionate about human rights.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Passionate

• I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Baby
  • My Life

• I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Lived

• In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • You
  • Moving
  • Philosophy

• Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Courage

• Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Different
  • Words
  • Religion

• I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Beginning
  • Born
  • Depression

• I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Life
  • Women
  • Remember

• The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Soul
  • You
  • Presence

• My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.

  

  Becky G
  • Heart
  • Kid
  • Keep

• What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Long
  • Way

• I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

  

  Nas
  • America
  • Help
  • Government

• There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Research
  • Ignored
  • Proposing

• One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Change
  • Better
  • Prison

• You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

  

  David Boies
  • Up
  • Done

• Though you pay for the hands they're shaking The speeches and the mistakes they're making As they struggle with the undertaking Of simple thought What you want, you don't know You're with stupid now What you know, you don't want to know You're with stupid now.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Simple
  • Struggle
  • Stupid

• To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Kind
  • Mean

• I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Help
  • Interested
  • Scientists

• I don't think guys inherently don't want to clean. I think the roles are most definitely changing, but I think in a good relationship, it's never been defined as 'a lady does this and a guy does this.' I think, in most working, healthy relationships, everybody does a little bit of everything.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Relationship
  • Roles
  • Changing

• I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

  

  David Lean