Freddie Wong Quotes

We're able to push the envelope with what we're doing, both on a technical and artistic level, which is the most that any filmmaker can ask for.

Freddie Wong

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• For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Soul
  • Said
  • Everything

• I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • History
  • Think
  • Change

• Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Confused
  • Mathematics

• There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Money
  • Power
  • Acting

• I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Parents
  • Train
  • Meet

• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Entertained

• I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Law
  • Me
  • Dad

• I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Work
  • Know
  • End

• I like retirement.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Like
  • Retirement

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Competitive

• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Always
  • Rather
  • Whiskey

• It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Run

• I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Better

• With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Music
  • Done
  • Job

• I'm always going back to New York for Broadway workshops or reading. So I always keep my foot in the door: I'm always on the lookout for the next Broadway show.

  

  Katherine McNamara
  • Reading
  • Door

• If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Distance
  • Keep

• Let's build a battery plant here.

  

  Keith Hobbs
  • Plant
  • Build
  • Battery

• We're able to push the envelope with what we're doing, both on a technical and artistic level, which is the most that any filmmaker can ask for.

  

  Freddie Wong