Jan de Bont Quotes

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

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• I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Style
  • Successful

• I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Economy

• But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Die

• I've always had an addictive nature.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Addictive

• The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Problems
  • Easy
  • Israel

• For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Friends

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Water

• Isn't it funnyHow a bear likes honey?Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!I wonder why he does?

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Why
  • Wonder

• Maybe he is the Mark Twain of the late twentieth century. Time will sort the bastard out and I leave it to others more qualified than me to assess and appraise his monumental literary legacy.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Time
  • Legacy

• If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Heart
  • Art

• A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Real
  • Heart

• I don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out, 'Gosh, I wonder how guys feel,' because most every piece of art I look at invites me into that experience.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Time
  • Art
  • Experience

• Sometimes you get the rap of, 'Don't always play hard,' or, 'Just doing it for the money.' But there are guys that genuinely love the game of basketball and are always playing it and are always out there. There are guys that work hard and actually understand the game and are very knowledgeable off the court as well.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Work
  • Money
  • Game

• I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Country
  • Paris

• Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Beach
  • Planning

• My police record says I went to Panama City, but I don't recall it.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • City
  • Police

• That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • Time

• One of the major problems with Obamacare - and another reason it needs to be entirely repealed - is that it prevents Montanans from developing our own, better health care system.

  

  Matt Rosendale
  • Health

• I follow English football a lot and Ancelotti.

  

  Alexandre Pato
  • Football
  • English

• Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Great
  • Power
  • War

• The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto-revel ation, if you will-declaring not for this nation only, but for all nations, the source of man's rights.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Nation
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Signatures

• As a director, you try to find what is creative.

  

  Jan de Bont