Francisco Costa Quotes

I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.

Francisco Costa

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • House
  • Parents
  • Funny

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Start

• Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • You
  • Reflect

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • World
  • Hollywood

• Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Miss

• My children are my life. They're so spectacular.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Children
  • My Life

• Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Everything

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Money
  • I Can
  • Cost

• If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Important
  • Friend
  • Day

• The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.

  

  Flume
  • Always
  • Goal
  • Human

• When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Time
  • Why
  • Singing

• Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • People
  • Trying
  • Truth

• What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Cool
  • Rap

• I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Good

• It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision.

  

  Debra Granik

• I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.

  

  Francisco Costa
  • People
  • Energy
  • Hate