Francis Lawrence Quotes

I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.

Francis Lawrence

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• Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Me
  • Say
  • Well

• There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Pride
  • Humility

• There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Future
  • Limits

• I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nice

• Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Food
  • Young

• I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Fashion

• I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Law
  • Laugh
  • Cut

• There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Know
  • Danger
  • Israel

• Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Real
  • Remember
  • War

• Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Remember
  • Purpose

• I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Change
  • Person
  • Feel

• Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Man

• There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.

  

  Jacques Parizeau
  • Freedom

• I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • Why

• Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • College
  • Childhood

• I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Guy

• When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Theatre

• For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Player
  • Artist
  • Language

• I'm a pretty intense person at the racetrack, but when I'm not thinking about my race car or in the garage doing my job, I'm pretty laid back, and I like to be organized and do normal things.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Humanity

• To think of Tolstoy eating a sandwich is intrinsically kind of funny.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Funny

• I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

  

  Eric Topol
  • Great

• I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.

  

  Francis Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Movie