David Slade Quotes

I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.

David Slade

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• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Serious

• Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Once

• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • World
  • Health
  • Organization

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Death
  • Penalty

• Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Perfect

• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Accept

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • American
  • America

• I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • My Life

• I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Love
  • Stop
  • Wish

• And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Want
  • You
  • Play

• I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Contradiction
  • Scares
  • Stimulated

• I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can't do the formulas - you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Ted Geisel was trying to make a statement about awareness and personal responsibility. He was very clear about that. But the ideas and themes in 'The Lorax' go beyond a love of trees. It's also a story about the dangers of greed and the power of redemption. That's what makes it a timeless tale.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Trying
  • Power
  • Responsibility

• Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.

  

  William C. Somerville
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.

  

  David Slade
  • Work
  • Luck
  • Preparation