John Heard Quotes

Television is fast and loose. You have two or three takes to get your part right, and if you have a problem, well, by the time you figure it out, everyone's moved on to the next scene. It's good training, keeps you on your toes.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Light
  • Show
  • Darkness

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Work
  • Me
  • Really

• I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Pretty
  • Moving
  • Like

• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Look

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Fun
  • Attention

• I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Good
  • Daily

• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • American
  • Day
  • Goal

• It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Life
  • Truth
  • True

• As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Live
  • Way
  • Hate

• As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Up
  • Go
  • Advertising

• If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Moral
  • Rich
  • Instincts

• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mother
  • Sins
  • Beware

• I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • May
  • Career
  • Science

• We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

  

  Young Thug
  • Money
  • Power
  • Game

• I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Brother

• I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• Lindor is a good player. When I was 20, I wasn't conditioned like he is.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Good
  • Player

• Television is fast and loose. You have two or three takes to get your part right, and if you have a problem, well, by the time you figure it out, everyone's moved on to the next scene. It's good training, keeps you on your toes.

  

  John Heard
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