John Boorman Quotes

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

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• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Beautiful
  • Sports
  • Air

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • America
  • England
  • Greater

• I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taken

• In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Equality

• If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Funny
  • Relationship
  • Clever

• I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Light

• AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Country
  • Challenge
  • Disaster

• I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Popular
  • Start

• I like to look good on the golf course.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Look
  • Golf

• If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Terrorism

• I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Bad

• When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Up
  • Speak
  • Ability

• Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Trust
  • Cards
  • Cut

• I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Successful
  • Writer
  • Rather

• I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Live
  • History
  • Goals

• Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Starting
  • Participation

• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  

  George C. Wallace
  • People
  • Why
  • Air

• If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Country
  • History
  • Looks

• No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

  

  William Penn
  • Life
  • Pain
  • inspirational

• God has brought us where we are, to consider the work we may do in the world, as well as at home.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.

  

  Jake Barton
  • People
  • Time
  • Identity

• I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

  

  John Boorman