John Carney Quotes
It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.John Carney
Quotes to Explore
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter Scott -
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing -
I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
Adam Beach -
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke -
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
Ice Cube
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Revenge doesn't stop.
Daniel Craig -
I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
G. Willow Wilson -
I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
Bear Grylls -
Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
Garry Trudeau -
I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
Padma Lakshmi -
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
Garth Brooks
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
Damien Hirst -
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. Edwards Deming -
Men create the gods in their own image.
Xenophanes -
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
Larry Niven -
My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
Cameron Bright -
It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
Gary Carter
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Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.
Van Jones -
In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'
Liang Chow -
I'm happy that I took time off to become a mom and raise my daughter properly and build a bond between the two of us.
Christine Flores -
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
George Bernard Shaw -
I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?
John Cassavetes -
It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.
John Carney