David Yates Quotes

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

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• If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Beautiful
  • Small
  • Unique

• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Help
  • Idea
  • Expression

• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Good
  • Democracy
  • Silence

• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Future
  • Woman
  • Hell

• Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Experience
  • City
  • New

• The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Leadership
  • Employees

• Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Great
  • Service

• If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Gold
  • Lead
  • Silver

• He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Secret
  • Communication

• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America

• The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • America
  • Down

• One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • Change
  • Water

• When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • Lost
  • Singing
  • Look

• While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Power
  • Growing

• I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Country
  • Remember
  • You

• Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Democracy

• Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • People
  • Past
  • Giving

• Our first two records are a lot quieter and more studio-based. We kind of had this feeling like we wanted to make a more quote-unquote 'rock' record. Then Patrick joined and really brought a new Herculean power to the band.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Power
  • Feeling
  • Band

• I think I have become a very strong person. If you’re able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you’re able to tackle anything around the world because you’re able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I’m concerned.

  

  Nneka
  • World
  • Concerned
  • Nigeria

• I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

  

  David Yates