Sandy Adams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
-
I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
-
I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
-
I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
-
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
-
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
-
A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
-
For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
-
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
-
I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
-
Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
-
I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
-
I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
-
You're gifted to do something.
-
I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
-
I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
-
If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.
-
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
-
We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.
-
Anyone who wishes to advance our species or an institution must possess those qualities which those who have little sense of self will perceive as narcissistic. All this besides the fact that “arrogant,” “headstrong,” “narcissistic,” and “cold” will be the terms used against any person who tries to be more himself or herself.
-
I never made a good movie.
-
There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
-
I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.
-
At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.
