Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Quotes

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

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• I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Say
  • Realize

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Bad
  • Actor
  • First

• I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • Los Angeles

• The French complain of everything, and always.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Complain

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Ambition
  • Meaningful

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Age
  • Girl
  • Young

• When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Real

• It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Small
  • Rest

• I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Man
  • You

• I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Happy
  • Commercial
  • Heroine

• Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Hollywood
  • Most
  • Fast

• I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Jeans

• There are times I can't even figure myself out.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Myself
  • Times
  • Figure

• There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Peace
  • Peaceful
  • Privacy

• I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What's the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • War
  • Hate

• I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Hate

• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Value
  • Contribution
  • Illusions

• You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Friends
  • Reason
  • Lifetime

• I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

  

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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