Francis Lawrence Quotes

There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.

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• I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Dream
  • Photography
  • Luck

• It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Political
  • Training
  • Office

• My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Period

• The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Kind
  • Artist
  • Speak

• I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Interest
  • Big
  • Swing

• What's Buffy got? A wooden stake, some garlic. Xena has a full arsenal of weapons.

  

  Lucy Lawless

• I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

  

  Ned Beauman
  • Mood

• One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Work
  • Money

• I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

  

  James Frey
  • School
  • Done
  • Home

• Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

  

  Kristen Johnston

• Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

  

  Chantal Kreviazuk
  • Up
  • Night
  • Sleep

• 'Mi Gente' is a song that embodies a special moment in music - a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.

  

  J Balvin
  • Music
  • Song
  • Culture

• I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.

  

  Jim McKay
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• No bad man can be a good poet.

  

  Boris Pasternak
  • Good
  • Bad

• Yes, for blacks, racism functions without the actual presence of whites, just as for whites it functions without the actual presence of blacks! Beliefs, conventions, history do the work.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Work
  • History
  • Racism

• I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

• Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

• I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

  

  Doug Ose

• The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Music

• One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

  

  Pauline Kael

• I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Promise
  • Bless

• I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

  

  Steve Diggle Buzzcocks
  • Sound
  • Cigarette
  • Load

• There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.

  

  Francis Lawrence
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