Gene Hackman Quotes

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

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• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Bewildering

• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Important
  • Black

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Want
  • Study

• Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Want
  • Dresses

• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Good
  • Age
  • Balance

• I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Person

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Woman
  • Hip Hop
  • Complex

• Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
  • Human

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Always
  • New

• I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Reading

• Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
  • Want
  • Best

• The simple things in life make me very happy.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Simple

• I'm not an experienced sailor.

  

  Alfie Allen

• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • Positive
  • Doubt
  • Model

• I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

  

  Martina McBride
  • Great

• I think that's the responsibility of the CEO and the CEOs below me: to make sure that we're constantly putting people in places where they have the opportunity to develop into those careers but also having a rewards and recognition system that allows a great programmer to stay as a great programmer.

  

  Bobby Kotick
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I always feel ill-prepared for commentaries and it had been so long I was afraid I'd forget everything that happened on the film. But having everybody come together for it was really great. It was like a high school reunion. We all reminisced and just had a great time.

  

  David Fincher
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

  

  Gene Hackman
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