Kurt Sutter Quotes

I don't think or write from big ideals.

Kurt Sutter

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• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Spirit

• My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Car

• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Treatment
  • Respond
  • Even

• I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Pleasure
  • Everyone

• I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Focus

• I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Same

• People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Obstacles

• China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.

  

  Ma Jun
  • May
  • Alone
  • Environment

• I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Live
  • Newspaper
  • Bubble

• I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Money
  • Done
  • Game

• When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Writing
  • School
  • Art

• He found himself now in the agreeable situation of being able to do what was best for others and at the same time what was convenient to himself.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time

• The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • World

• Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Opportunity
  • Practice

• Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

  

  Bill Bradley
  • Great
  • Important
  • Sports

• When we think about big records, a lot of producers are thinking of how to make it as standard as possible. I think those days are gone. I think you have to surprise the audience in 2015.

  

  Diplo
  • Thinking

• A good idea is not enough. It must be the fit of a particular idea for a particular entrepreneur and, ideally, unfair advantages in why said particular entrepreneur is going to address said particular idea.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Good
  • Why
  • Entrepreneur

• I love being Latina. I love our values, the way we're so in touch with others, our dark humor, how fun we are, how relaxed we are. I love how hard working, independent, and ambitious we are.

  

  Eiza Gonzalez
  • Fun
  • Dark
  • Independent

• There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn't know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn't find it. There was nothing.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Up
  • Missing

• Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Men
  • Why
  • Wise

• What I did not want to be was a fad, because fads die. I had one of the George Michael Wham! neon-colored sweatshirts, and I thought it would never go out of style. Fads die.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Die
  • Style

• My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Parents
  • Freedom

• I don't think or write from big ideals.

  

  Kurt Sutter