David Ogden Stiers Quotes

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Best
  • Passionate
  • Courageous

• I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Music
  • Interior

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Accept
  • Rejection

• Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Partner
  • Office

• Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Eggs
  • Fresh
  • Farm

• Race differences show up early in life.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Race

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Stories
  • Fight
  • Intelligence

• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Disrespect

• Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Makes

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • Power
  • Choose
  • Greatest

• South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Literature
  • Prison

• If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Woman
  • Dinner

• I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Books
  • Jokes
  • Spend

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Fun
  • Dream
  • Play

• Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Communication
  • Duty
  • Share

• And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Different
  • Together
  • Working Together

• You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Work
  • Different
  • Live