Peter Billingsley Quotes

I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • High
  • Pretty
  • You

• Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Groups

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Just

• Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Government
  • Politics
  • More

• My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Hero
  • Anger

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • Person
  • Speak
  • Actions

• Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Hope
  • Man

• Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • God
  • Business
  • Attention

• We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Artist
  • Write

• If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

  

  Feist
  • You
  • Fall
  • Wall

• I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Down

• I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • Nice
  • Clothes

• If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Tax
  • Vanity

• The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

  

  Steven Levy
  • Art
  • Creation
  • Computer

• I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Inspired
  • Designer
  • Vintage

• All this wealth excludes but one evil,-poverty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Evil
  • Poverty

• Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Never
  • Economic
  • Been

• When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Inspired