Maurice Flanagan Quotes

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

Maurice Flanagan

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• If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

  

  Ed Westwick
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• I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
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  • Most

• I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
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• I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
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• It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
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• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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  • My Life

• The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Work
  • Different
  • Small

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
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• Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • City

• I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Time
  • Travel

• I know we can fix our problems. When there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than they worry about winning reelection, it is possible to work together, achieve principal compromise, and get results for the people who give us these jobs in the first place.

  

  Chris Christie
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  • Job

• I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

  

  E. L. James
  • Life
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  • My Life

• That was the political reality of 1987: Saxophones made you cool. That's real! That really happened in our society!

  

  Christopher Miller
  • Real
  • Society
  • Political

• As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

  

  Geoff Dyer

• According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

  

  Maurice Flanagan
  • People
  • Work
  • Walking