Paul Greengrass Quotes

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

Paul Greengrass

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• During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

  

  Questlove
  • Political
  • Me
  • Wise

• A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Free
  • Goals
  • Conflict

• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Truth
  • Brain
  • Details

• The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Something

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Know
  • Teaching
  • Coach

• John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Time
  • Music
  • Love

• I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Past
  • Amazing
  • Moving

• At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • First
  • Root
  • Then

• In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Hurt

• A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

  

  Hale White
  • Power
  • True
  • Knowledge

• People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Like
  • Need

• In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Past
  • Young
  • Now

• As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • World
  • Lost
  • Comedy

• It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Love
  • Belief

• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • God
  • Opinion

• There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

  

  Larry Poons
  • People
  • Painting
  • Color

• I work mostly in the studio; as I mentioned several times, the leaves are burgeoning and change so rapidly that I have been unable to prepare a single sketch. I am making little watercolors and pastels, I think they will come out all right; in the studio I am preparing five or six canvases, I work on one after another, I am getting used to working that way.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Single

• This was a time when racism was still very rampant, but the music that came out of Sun Studio was absolutely color blind. It was all about feeling. It was music that anybody could understand, and that made a step towards bettering the world for everyone.

  

  Drake Milligan
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• If working remotely is such a great idea, why isn't everyone doing it? I think it's because we've been bred on the idea that work happens from 9 to 5, in offices and cubicles. It's no wonder that most who are employed inside that model haven't considered other options, or resist the idea that it could be any different. But it can.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work
  • Great
  • Different

• My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Taken

• Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Perception

• Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

  

  Paul Greengrass
  • Character
  • Action
  • Reveals