Jeff Nichols Quotes

As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

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• Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Work
  • Help

• There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Child
  • Slavery

• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Genuine

• As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Years

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Laughter

• As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Man
  • Control

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • World
  • Important
  • Mother

• I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Voice
  • Victim
  • Oriented

• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Change
  • Yourself

• I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Man
  • Past
  • Cool

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.

  

  Becky G
  • Gold
  • Having
  • Regular

• If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • History
  • Black

• I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Life
  • World
  • Childhood

• I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Today
  • Road
  • End

• Music changes, life changes. It's like Jay Z said: 'If people like the old Jay, then go listen to the old Jay.' I always heard that, but never understood it.

  

  O. T. Genasis
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• It's in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person.

  

  Ben Falcone
  • Creepy

• Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes careTo grant, before we can conclude the prayer:Preventing angels met it half the way,And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.

  

  John Dryden
  • Heaven
  • Prayer

• The only way you can have a job and sleep at work whenever you want is when you own the company.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Work
  • Job
  • Sleep

• As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Job