James Broughton Quotes

Adversity is a stimulus.

James Broughton

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• The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Great
  • Art
  • Study

• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Reading
  • Thought

• I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Free

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Help

• When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movies
  • Everything
  • Learned

• It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Sweet
  • Laundry

• There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Enough
  • Look
  • Stand

• And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Happy
  • Training
  • Mission

• I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Book

• I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Fear

• How fit is he to sway That can so well obey ('Horatian Ode,' 83-84),

  

  Andrew Marvell

• This Court now concludes that independent political expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Political
  • Independent

• A man should be upright, not kept upright.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• I pray in my own way, not regularly, and I wouldn't say structured prayers. What I'm praying to I'm not sure. I'd be a firm agnostic.

  

  Keith Barry

• In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.

  John Moody
  • War

• One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

  

  Ben Okri
  • Life
  • Father
  • Courage

• I receive many letters from people hoping to research their own houses.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • Research
  • Houses

• I think with improv - and I say it all the time because it's become such a catch thing that you talk about improv - if the scene is well-written, you don't need to improv. But that being said, if something strikes you in the moment and, most importantly, you know where the scene is supposed to go, it's no different than method acting.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Acting

• Adversity is a stimulus.

  

  James Broughton
  • Adversity