Fay Godwin Quotes

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

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• You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Business
  • You
  • Always

• The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Discipline

• I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Think
  • You
  • Learned

• If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Music
  • Done
  • You

• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • American
  • Years
  • Three

• For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.

  

  Lance Gross
  • You
  • Like
  • Person

• For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Time
  • Hope
  • You

• You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • You
  • Peace
  • Always

• If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

  

  Samantha Power
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Ways

• And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Today
  • You
  • Movies

• When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • You
  • Question
  • Mystery

• I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • You
  • Poverty

• No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Model
  • Famous

• Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Believe
  • You

• In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their strong events are the shot put and javelin.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Strong
  • You
  • Others

• As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • World
  • Different
  • You

• The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Voice
  • Doing

• What I'm trying to do is make the camera-work lyrical rather than fragmentary. It's a dance between the camera and the actors.

  

  Christopher Doyle
  • Trying
  • Dance
  • Actors

• To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Great
  • Language
  • Limits

• It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Rock

• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • May
  • Beginning

• You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

  

  Fay Godwin
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