Byron Allen Quotes

There has to be a place carved out for independents, films where the heroes don't fly around in capes, but there are journeys and struggles we need to learn from and be inspired by.

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Truth
  • Bible

• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Dream

• There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Start
  • Chinese

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Real
  • Best

• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Children
  • Sharp
  • Stairs

• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Important
  • Book
  • Me

• Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Nice

• I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• Look good, feel good, play good.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Look
  • Feel Good

• Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Fun

• In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Chemistry
  • Carbon
  • Organic

• Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Color
  • Classic
  • Sweater

• It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Training

• THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Power
  • Perfect
  • Problem

• A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • Heart
  • Alone
  • Fly

• The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Real

• Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.

  

  Rebecca De Mornay
  • Inspired
  • Problems
  • Complicated

• At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.

  

  James Turrell
  • Work
  • Art
  • Nature

• There has to be a place carved out for independents, films where the heroes don't fly around in capes, but there are journeys and struggles we need to learn from and be inspired by.

  

  Byron Allen
  • Inspired
  • Fly