Jane Poynter Quotes

It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza.

Jane Poynter

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• With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Canvas

• And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sympathy
  • Without
  • Funeral

• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Giving
  • Enough
  • Fortune

• While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Father
  • Peace
  • Storm

• I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Choices
  • Feel
  • Right

• I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.

  

  Wendell H. Ford
  • Books
  • Read
  • Personally

• No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Competition

• Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Time

• I am not a big reader to begin with.

  

  Billy Burke

• My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Father
  • Judging

• I started karate in middle school when my parents wanted me to babysit my younger brother. He was a little troublemaker, so they wanted me to make sure the class was going okay. I ended up being way more into it than my brother.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• 'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Up
  • America
  • Mountain

• When we do our legislation, we're not trying to figure out, 'How can I use this to run against you?' We say, 'How can we pass this bill to help both of our constituents?'

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Trying
  • Help

• I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• Since the beginning, I have always tried to just be me. There have been moments in my career as a YouTuber where I've recognized that I'm trying to emulate something else, or I'm being heavily influenced by a YouTuber or something like that, and I realize that's not what I want to be putting out.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Moments

• There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Long
  • Nice
  • Wonder

• 1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Nice

• It's a tough accent. It's difficult for actors who are not Kiwis.

  

  Martin Henderson

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

  

  Jay Leno
  • People
  • Time
  • America

• It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza.

  

  Jane Poynter
  • Pizza