Brad Stone Quotes

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• The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Strong

• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Movies

• I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Live
  • Funny

• I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Me
  • New

• Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Happy
  • British
  • Dialect

• I love wrestling, and I love the entertainment aspect of wrestling, but the rest of my life, I just want to be able to live and enjoy my life. I don't want to be living it essentially for other people's entertainment.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Enjoy

• I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • People
  • Age
  • Girl

• Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Job
  • You
  • Reason

• What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Energy

• I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Language
  • Certain

• I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Always
  • Stage
  • Sense

• To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Respect

• Don’t say: 'They must have something in common, or they would not be called ‘games’' but look and see whether there is anything common to all. For if you look at them, you won’t see something that is common to all, but similarities, affinities, and a whole series of them at that. To repeat: don’t think, but look!

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Remember that your bird should have no other model than the bat, because its membranes serve as an armour or rather as a means of building together the pieces of its armour, that is the framework of the wings.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Model

• The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.'

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Different
  • Red
  • Blue

• Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fun

• Probably the best caddies are the smartest ones and the ones that are switched on mentally more than some of the others maybe.

  

  Lee Westwood

• I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

  

  Carol Anshaw
  • Writing
  • Reading

• I would advise sitting from morning till night under some willow bush on the river bank where there is a wide view. This will be 'doing the valley' far more effectively than riding along trails in constant motion from point to point. The entire valley is made up of 'points of interest.'

  

  John Muir
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.

  

  Nina Berberova
  • Universe
  • Within
  • Observer

• I think it's important for people to understand that this started with President Bill Clinton. He, as president, thought it was such a big priority, he passed the defense of marriage - defense of traditional non-gay marriage - that we have it as a federal law.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • People
  • Important
  • Law

• The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.

  

  Walter Russell
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Greatness

• If I had a worldview, and I don’t know if I do, but if I did, it’s one that’s intensely humanistic. That worldview is that the only thing that matters is family and personal connection, and that’s the only thing that gives life meaning. Religion and gods and beliefs — for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole, it’s about human connections.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Family
  • Connection
  • Worldview

• Airbnb is a company with values around hospitality.

  

  Brad Stone