Phillip Noyce Quotes

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

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• We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Building
  • Determination
  • Confused

• The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Same
  • Influence

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • You
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Money
  • Priority

• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Education
  • Form
  • Rewards

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Religious

• Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Rock
  • Metal

• I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • New
  • New York
  • Starting

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Art
  • Fashion

• People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • People
  • Food
  • Better

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Week

• I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Power
  • Running

• The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.

  

  Burke Marshall
  • People
  • Fire

• The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Long
  • Creative

• One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Painting

• If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

  

  Preston Brooks
  • Why
  • Power

• I was small growing up, and to make matters worse, I wore glasses, and my mother dressed me in attention-getting outfits. I was a target of bullies.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Small

• You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

  

  Phillip Noyce
  • Work
  • Responsibility