John Milius Quotes

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

John Milius

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Working

• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Work
  • Change

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

• They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Day

• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Will
  • Conquered

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Those
  • Penalty

• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Need
  • Economy
  • Bank

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Opportunity
  • Cool
  • Camera

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Music
  • Want
  • Security

• Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Job
  • Me
  • President

• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

  Gail Devers
  • Believe
  • Proud
  • Looking Back

• You're supposed to have a passionate purpose as a CEO.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Purpose

• My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • Death
  • Dream
  • Ballet

• If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Music
  • Crazy
  • Band

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

  

  John Milius
  • Writing