Harry Hadden-Paton Quotes

The way a play is seen is completely dependent on the circumstances and the world in which it is received.

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • Game
  • Change

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Weak

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Business
  • Film
  • Waste

• I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

  

  Washed Out
  • Everything
  • Computer
  • Hiding

• If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Best
  • Period

• Faith is never identical with piety.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Faith
  • Never
  • Piety

• We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Political
  • Energy
  • Balance

• Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Why
  • Pool
  • Resources

• I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • History
  • Research
  • Fiction

• When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Up
  • Money
  • Job

• Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Christian
  • Christ

• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Grow

• Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

  

  Edward Coke
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Rest

• Got the bubble-headed bleach blonde who comes on at five She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye It's interesting when people die: give us dirty laundry.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • People
  • She
  • Interesting

• Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Progress
  • Chinese

• I rise only to say that I do not intend to say anything. I thank you for your hearty welcomes and good cheers.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Good

• The artist's business requires his involvement in practically everything. He works in reference, not to a section of the world, but to the whole world.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • World
  • Business

• Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • World
  • Summer
  • Gold

• Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Running
  • Memories

• The way a play is seen is completely dependent on the circumstances and the world in which it is received.

  

  Harry Hadden-Paton
  • World
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  • Circumstance