Bryce Dallas Howard Quotes

It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.

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• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • World
  • Health
  • Organization

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Job
  • Man
  • Government

• There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Think
  • Success
  • Follow

• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Good
  • Work
  • Strong

• Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Look

• The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • War
  • China

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Like
  • Hands
  • Talking

• And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Dirty

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Why
  • Black
  • Daily

• After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Success

• When I finish my school work for the day, I like to go play basketball, ride my bike or skateboard, play video games, or go free running.

  

  Max Charles
  • Work
  • School
  • Free

• After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that has worked to prevent warfare between the two.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • World
  • War
  • Together

• Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Feels

• It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Work
  • Serious