Ian St. John Quotes

Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

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• Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Inspire
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  • Timidity

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Help
  • Mission
  • Founders

• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Job
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  • Director

• Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Movie
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• I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Bad
  • Kind
  • Fashion

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Walking
  • Dead
  • Benefit

• Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Different
  • City
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• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Common
  • Two
  • Common Sense

• I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Start
  • Make
  • Come

• I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Up
  • Good
  • American

• Winning excuses everything.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Winning
  • Everything
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• I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • World
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  • Book

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Business
  • Luck
  • New

• There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • History
  • Career

• I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Work

• I'm in a happier place because my dreams are coming true. I'm acting in feature films, and I'm travelling the world. Before, I was just broke.

  

  Ashley Thomas
  • World
  • True

• I'm afraid there are no magical tips. There is no secret. Writing is all about telling stories as well as you can.

  

  Debi Gliori
  • Writing

• Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Media