Jim Woodring Quotes

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

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• How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Work
  • City
  • How

• 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Character
  • Party
  • Fight

• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Men
  • Confidence
  • Potential

• In addition we also hire many senior citizens.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Senior
  • Senior Citizens

• I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Home
  • Living
  • Once

• Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Work
  • Home
  • Child

• Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

  

  Ian Hart
  • See
  • Secret
  • Missing

• I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Inspired

• There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Done
  • Politics
  • Basketball

• I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Age
  • Catholic
  • Leaders

• I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Why
  • Want
  • Hate

• Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Running

• I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Myself
  • Couple
  • Person

• If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Die

• I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

  

  Kim Carnes
  • Heart
  • Done

• Picking roles, my way of choosing them is vastly different now than it was a long time ago, but I can only be that way now because of what I've learned from the past. So I'm choosing now not to choose any work, because when you've had such a nice ride, unexpected rides and fulfilling rides, you really don't want to take a step backwards. It's really made me satisfied in a way that I wasn't looking for, but I was blessed with it and now I feel really full, in a good way, where I don't need to rush out and go find something.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Different
  • Long
  • Past

• A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

  

  James Thurber

• Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

  

  Jim Woodring