Martin Donovan Quotes

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

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• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Game

• A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • People
  • Good
  • Moments

• Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Film

• Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Day
  • Now
  • Outside

• Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Day

• My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Home
  • Technology
  • Air

• I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • May
  • Friends
  • Child

• We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Mind
  • Numbers

• Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Free
  • Yourself
  • Tradition

• Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Drama

• 'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Music
  • Real
  • Power

• He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Politics
  • How
  • Slander

• I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Different
  • Stop
  • Reason

• Youth has no age.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Birthday

• I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Think
  • Color
  • White

• I love children.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Children
  • Love
  • I Love

• The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Sexy

• We don't need to be politically correct. We need to be morally right.

  

  Jeanine Pirro

• It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.

  

  Judith Tarr
  • Writing
  • Woman
  • Fantasy

• I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

  

  Brian Huskey
  • Road

• Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

  

  Judith Martin
  • E-mail
  • Signing
  • Salutation

• Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

  

  Martin Donovan