Jim Broadbent Quotes

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

Jim Broadbent

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• I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Partner
  • Bridge

• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Live
  • Die
  • Fast

• It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Long
  • Effort
  • Determination

• Time will heal everything.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Time
  • Everything
  • Will

• I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Support
  • Drunk
  • Statistics

• Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Child
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Kids
  • Weird
  • Impression

• An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • More
  • Move
  • Ant

• Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Unknown
  • Rejection

• Andy Clark refers to humans as 'natural-born cyborgs.' What he means is that we habitually extend and change our body-concept without even thinking twice about it.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Without

• There's no simple formula here. But we must try as best we can to balance isolation and engagement, pressure and incentives, so that human rights and dignity are advanced over time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Balance

• Every terrible thing in the world was caused by a whole combination of things. But everybody wanted to narrow it down to one cause-and not even the real one. Much better to have one cause-one person to punish. Then the unbearable could be borne.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • World
  • Real

• It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.

  

  Learned Hand
  • True

• The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Political
  • Religious

• Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say we agree to agree and move ahead.

  

  Alexis Ohanian

• 'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Important
  • Trying
  • True

• No matter how many times you've done it, the early stages of getting a show up on its feet is very hit and miss. There seem to be thousands of options on every page to discover.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Up
  • Done

• There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Humans
  • Directors
  • Storytelling

• I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Acting
  • Camera

• I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Dream

• I just decided that I wasn't going to gain anything by going to school, since we couldn't afford it anyway, so I left school very early and went to work and progressively did things.

  

  Kerry Stokes
  • Work
  • School

• I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Know
  • Watching
  • Depressing

• You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

  

  Jim Broadbent