Hayley Atwell Quotes

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Hayley Atwell

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• A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Success
  • Couple
  • Successful

• There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Real
  • Sense
  • Camaraderie

• No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Different
  • Know
  • Never

• I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Home
  • Age
  • Doing

• An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Different
  • Night
  • Day

• I wanted to play baseball!

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Play
  • Baseball
  • Wanted

• There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Alone

• I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Career

• You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Good

• A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Why
  • Character
  • Comedy

• People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• My favorite expression is a tag line or an advertising and marketing campaign that Ford ran a number of years ago. They ran it for almost 12 years, and it was, 'Have you driven a Ford lately?'

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Marketing

• I get star-struck anytime I meet performers that I grew up watching and appreciating. I mean, it's still incredibly surreal to me that I was a kid in San Antonio watching movies and then now I'm working with some of the people that were in those movies. I don't think it'll ever stop being surreal on some level.

  

  James Roday
  • People
  • Up
  • Stop

• If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

  

  James Bovard

• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

  

  Jared Leto Thirty Seconds to Mars
  • Work
  • Teen

• Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.

  

  Annalee Newitz

• Any time a young adult book throws a girl and a guy together, the clock starts running on the countdown to the kiss.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Time
  • Book
  • Together

• 'If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise,' said the seer. 'If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.'

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Good
  • Bad

• It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Modern
  • Myth
  • Variety

• Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• Understand that all emotions serve you. Those you once thought of as negative emotions are merely calls to action. For example, if you feel frustrated it means that you believe things could be better, and they're not. This is a call to action telling you there's something you must do to make this better now. This "negative" emotion is actually a gift if you use it effectively.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Mean

• If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Passion

• The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

  

  Hayley Atwell
  • Art of conversation