John Carpenter Quotes

In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

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• People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Think
  • Look

• I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Culture
  • Car
  • Purple

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide

• Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Loneliness

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Always
  • Talent

• America faces a new race that has awakened.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • America
  • New
  • Race

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Good
  • Party
  • Leadership

• A well begun is half ended.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Half
  • Well
  • Ended

• I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Sex

• One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Never
  • Look
  • Orange

• If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • American
  • Know
  • Better

• I've had a few ditty hits.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Had
  • Few
  • Hits

• I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Try
  • Anything

• The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basically. All those people pulled together and helped get me started. Like, showed me how to hit my mark, made me do this, made me do that. That was my first long-running professional gig. And it was like, they were just - great, great with me.

  

  Ally Walker
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.

  

  M. R. DeHaan

• I don't see myself as a Larry King or somebody. When you do interviews, sometimes it turns to interrogations. I'm more of a conversationalist, not throwing hardball questions.

  

  Joe Morgan
  • King

• I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Good

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

  

  John Carpenter
  • Character
  • Halloween