Drummond Money-Coutts Quotes

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

Drummond Money-Coutts

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• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • May
  • Together

• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Public
  • Intellectual

• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Work
  • Success
  • Work Hard

• If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Friends
  • Way
  • Connections

• You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Hunger
  • Idiot

• I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Me
  • Down

• When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Speak
  • Act
  • Consequences

• In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • World
  • Business
  • Everything

• I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Exciting
  • Quite
  • Improvisation

• As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my designs have flattered her, not taken over her. I take that philosophy to heart myself each morning when I am getting ready for the day.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Amazing

• This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

  

  Gary Hart
  • You
  • Leave
  • San Francisco

• The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Together
  • You
  • Feel

• Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Selfish
  • Some People

• The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Best
  • Spirit

• There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Cold

• 'She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Candy

• L'intelligence est presque inutile à celui qui ne possède qu'elle.

  

  Alexis Carrel

• The time has come when we should have a critical, official, monumental edition of all of Rizal's works, with illustrations contributed by Luna about other artists of ours... When every Filipino home shall contain such a national work, stimulative of autonomous sentiments...then the Philippines will be spiritually and practically independent.

  

  Epifanio de los Santos
  • Work
  • Home
  • Independent

• One year, we tried to deep-fry a turkey. It must have been really humid outside, because the temperature of the oil got thrown off. It ended up being slow-cooked in oil - black on the outside and raw on the inside.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Up
  • Black
  • Deep

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

  

  Drummond Money-Coutts
  • Magic