Jeffrey Wright Quotes

What I've appreciated about the 'Bond' films is there's always been a subtle social relevance to them. They've always commented on the times.

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• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Movie
  • You
  • Learn

• I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Control

• I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Long
  • Business
  • Working Hard

• On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Value
  • Heroism

• My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Order
  • Deal
  • Traditional

• Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.

  

  Walter Salles
  • American
  • New
  • Now

• Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Always
  • Human
  • Meaning

• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• My work ethic is from sports.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Work
  • Sports
  • Work Ethic

• You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Art
  • You

• Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Political
  • Person
  • Wants

• My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Birth

• There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Internet
  • Social
  • Momentum

• All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Pictures
  • Framed

• If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Win
  • Need
  • Security

• When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• I'm gonna see 'Mission Impossible' Part 9 because I like Tom Cruise movies! But just because the box office has that one receipt from the ticket I purchased, doesn't mean it represents someone who liked it.

  

  Sean Patrick Flanery
  • Impossible
  • Office
  • Cruise

• I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Music
  • Love
  • Freedom

• These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

  

  Michael N. Castle
  • Country
  • Patriotism
  • Memorial

• Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices.

  

  Nicholas Donabet Kristof
  • Information
  • Internet
  • Prejudices

• What I've appreciated about the 'Bond' films is there's always been a subtle social relevance to them. They've always commented on the times.

  

  Jeffrey Wright