David M. Evans Quotes

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

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• I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Doing

• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Hand
  • Goal
  • Friendship

• I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Running

• The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Nature
  • Goal
  • Research

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • America
  • Party

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Broken

• As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • College
  • Step

• Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Help
  • Think
  • Key

• I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Fall
  • Minutes
  • Stamina

• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Happiness
  • Everyday
  • Self

• Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Day

• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Day

• An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Men
  • Death
  • Enemy

• It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Happy

• That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Great
  • God
  • Book

• And when the physician said, 'Sir, you are an old man,' 'That happens,' replied Pausanias, 'because you never were my doctor.'

  

  Plutarch

• A name is a solemn thing.

  

  L. T. Meade
  • Names
  • Solemn

• You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

  

  David M. Evans
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