Eric Heiden Quotes

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.

Eric Heiden

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• I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • Character
  • Book

• What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Character
  • Parents
  • Stuff

• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Army

• I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Emotional

• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Strong Woman

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • People
  • Character
  • Job

• When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Character
  • House
  • Period

• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Attention

• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• If I don't love my character, I can't do it.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Love
  • Character

• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • American
  • Mother

• 'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Come

• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Books

• A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strong

• Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

  

  John Stockwell
  • People
  • Attention
  • Military

• When I was younger, I was impressed by those who were educated, accomplished, successful, and applauded by the world. But over the years, I have come to the realization that I am far more impressed by those wonderful and blessed souls who are truly good and without guile.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • World
  • Good
  • Blessed

• A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

  

  Billie Burke
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Past

• I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.

  

  Walter Wangerin
  • Mother
  • Taken
  • Influence

• At the end of the day, l just want to be myself. I don't set out to be like anyone else.

  

  Bibi Bourelly

• In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.

  

  Eric Heiden
  • Character
  • Strong