John Stockwell Quotes

Customs and immigrations officials are trained to detect the unusual. In some countries they are especially alert to CIA officers

John Stockwell

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• Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Sometimes

• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Interest
  • Lie
  • National

• As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Health
  • New
  • Safety

• Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Dangerous

• I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Star
  • Organization
  • New England Patriots

• Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Weapons

• I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Street
  • Workers
  • Construction

• I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Man
  • Action

• Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Quite
  • Versatile
  • Brussels

• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Up
  • Art
  • Soul

• I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Me
  • Personality
  • Where

• I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Good
  • Happen
  • Good Things

• I hate being too pretty.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Pretty
  • Hate
  • Being

• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Enthusiasm
  • Common Sense

• It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Morning

• My dad was around every second. Teaching me the game.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Game
  • Me
  • Dad

• You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Confidence

• I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

  

  Chantal Joffe
  • Body
  • Painting
  • Interest

• When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.

  

  James Toback
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Measured

• The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.

  

  Abi Morgan

• Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.

  

  Alexa Ray Joel
  • Parents
  • Popular
  • Growing Up

• Customs and immigrations officials are trained to detect the unusual. In some countries they are especially alert to CIA officers

  

  John Stockwell