John Lee Hancock Quotes

For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.

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• No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Government
  • Enough

• In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Great
  • Writing
  • School

• Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Body

• Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Long
  • Money
  • Remember

• Hospitals are about healing.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Healing
  • About
  • Hospitals

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Fall
  • Creative
  • Rain

• I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Age
  • Doing
  • Young

• Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Women
  • Love
  • Hope

• I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Never
  • Books
  • Read

• You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Think
  • Always
  • Romantic

• I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Never
  • Husband
  • Back

• 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Business
  • Bad
  • India

• Favoritism, elitism, leader-worship, they crept back and cropped out everywhere. But she had never hoped to see them eradicated in her lifetime, in one generation; only Time works the great changes.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Great
  • She

• Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Political
  • Moral
  • Animal

• The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Law
  • Suffering
  • Hero

• Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Art

• What fascinates me is that when we look at the history of women in politics, so frequently the women who get the farthest are the women who are quite conservative in their political views.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Women
  • History
  • Political

• I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble rank - I blush not to state it, nor am I sorry - for the profit of others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Life
  • Father
  • Jesus

• Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Organization
  • Leader

• For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.

  

  John Lee Hancock