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

• 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

• Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Person
  • Prosperity
  • Turn

• Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

  Elliott Erwitt
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Photography

• Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • High

• We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

  

  Neil Cavuto

• I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Years
  • Divorce
  • Atheism

• 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