John Carpenter Quotes

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

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• My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Angel
  • Writers

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Humour
  • Agnostic

• And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Really

• I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Up
  • Black
  • Brother

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Happy
  • Process
  • Wrong

• So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • Travel
  • See

• I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Family
  • Catholic
  • Very

• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Guy
  • Change
  • Problem

• My 'Dunkirk' co-star Harry Styles deals with some crazy fan stuff, but he's a very down-to-earth, lovely, funny guy.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Funny

• I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Admit
  • Plato

• Each one prays to God according to his own light.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Light

• All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Deal
  • Well
  • Multicultural

• With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Picture
  • Son
  • First

• It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.

  

  Sam Dew
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• When I was younger, I enjoyed being strong, and I loved it when my heart was very strong, but I think it was also about submitting to the cultural idea that if you're a 22-year-old woman, you have to look a certain way. I'm not into that anymore. But I do appreciate it when my clothes fit.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Heart
  • Strong

• Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Power
  • Value
  • Quantity

• Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Want
  • You
  • Mystery

• In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Children
  • Special
  • Bond

• From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Humanity
  • Years
  • Looks

• I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

  

  John Carpenter