Douglas Trumbull Quotes

I learned a lot on '2001.'

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• Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • You
  • Percent
  • Invisible

• Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Actor
  • Critics
  • Golfer

• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Problem

• If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• The joke is mightier than the sword.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Joke
  • Sword
  • Mightier

• Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Never
  • Language

• I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Try
  • Kitchen

• I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • School
  • Fashion
  • Loved

• I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Know
  • Model

• I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Guitar
  • Awesome

• I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Focus

• I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • TV

• I listen to a lot of Solange. I love old-school as well.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • School
  • Old
  • Listen

• My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Political
  • Past
  • Eyes

• People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People

• Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • People
  • Good
  • Hate

• San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates.

  

  Jeremy Sumpter
  • Team

• There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Joy
  • Forms
  • Essentially

• I learned a lot on '2001.'

  

  Douglas Trumbull