Bill Paxton Quotes

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

Bill Paxton

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• I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Technology

• What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Trying
  • You
  • Story

• I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • End
  • Milk
  • Cow

• Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Successful
  • Execution
  • Throw

• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Smile

• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
  • Education

• In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Star

• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Player
  • Vision

• That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Up
  • Go
  • Weak

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Why
  • Happy

• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Brain

• Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Me
  • Found
  • Metal

• I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Feel
  • My Life

• I will try and make peace between North and South Korea.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Peace
  • Try
  • Will

• I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Kind
  • Mean
  • Signature

• What's important to me is people just being people.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Play
  • Picture
  • Actors

• I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be a starving artist. But on the other hand, life is short, and if you are burning with a passion to do something, then do it. Work hard, study hard at it, and don't give up.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Growth

• I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Forgive
  • Dogs
  • Attachment

• When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

  

  Bill Paxton