John Huston Quotes

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

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• Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Yourself

• Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Good
  • Great
  • Know

• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Time
  • Work
  • Funny

• I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Cinema
  • Commercial
  • Mould

• To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Good
  • Great
  • Running

• After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Space
  • Safety

• Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Competition

• Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Want

• When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Great
  • Different
  • Women

• I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wonderful

• Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Practice

• If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Career
  • Cool

• I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Favorites

• Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Loved
  • Sense
  • Him

• My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • School
  • Love

• The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Point
  • Storytelling
  • Urban

• You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

  

  John Huston
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  • Door