John Madden Quotes

If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic.

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• More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Fashion
  • Need
  • Everything

• Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Give

• And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Think
  • Me
  • Single

• I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Story
  • Movies

• However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Dream
  • Alone
  • Speak

• I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Important
  • Question
  • Luck

• I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Music
  • Never
  • Thought

• It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Alone
  • Thoughts
  • Perspective

• I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Me

• It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Eye
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Character
  • Play
  • Actor

• I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way too competitive. We were seven or eight years old, and I had a very stern conversation with my relay team-mates about how crucial it was for us to win.

  

  Laura Robson
  • School
  • Remember
  • Team

• Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Education

• I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Know
  • Dance
  • Independent

• Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Despair
  • Salvation

• The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Medicine
  • Been
  • Regulation

• Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Long
  • Everyday
  • Decisions

• It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Think

• In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Environment
  • Financial
  • Down

• We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

  

  Stephen R. Donaldson
  • World
  • Make
  • Live In

• The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Up
  • Art

• If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic.

  

  John Madden