Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Quotes

'UnREAL' has always been provocative and bitingly honest, which makes the show what it is.

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• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Wish

• I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Drawing
  • Ties
  • Keeps

• I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

  

  Larry David
  • Reading
  • Said
  • Stand

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Love
  • Weird

• When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Book

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Play
  • Calm

• Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Want
  • Clothes
  • Minds

• Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Good
  • American
  • Man

• I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Successful
  • Writer
  • Rather

• The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • True
  • Woman
  • Image

• What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Different
  • America
  • War

• Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Broken

• Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom.

  

  Edward Sapir
  • Fashion

• Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • God
  • Doubt
  • King

• We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Good
  • Opinion

• I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • People
  • World

• I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Mind
  • America

• 'UnREAL' has always been provocative and bitingly honest, which makes the show what it is.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman