Sidney Lumet (Sidney Arthur Lumet) Quotes
Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.Sidney Lumet
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
Nancy Gibbs -
I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
Maiwenn -
I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
Ed Balls -
Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
Laura Moser -
I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
Olivia Wilde -
I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
Lance Gross
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
J. William Fulbright -
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
Saint Patrick -
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
Laura Dern -
The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
Jack Kerouac -
I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
Mahmoud Darwish -
It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
T. Boone Pickens -
Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
Mallory Ortberg -
When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.
Jenny Han -
I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.
Chris Pratt -
The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.
Chris Isaak -
I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
Chita Rivera
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It's weird talking about the album as a living being with its own thoughts and direction, especially if you're the one creating it.
Jens Lekman -
In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.
Gerald Maxwell Rivera -
Nobody can buy Jeff Greene. Nobody ever has. Nobody ever will.
Jeff Greene -
Music helps me get into the zone and really focus on being in the moment with the work.
Grace Weber -
I'd like to challenge Ryback to a match - in real life - just to see. I think I could take him, but I wonder how Ryback would react to getting slapped.
AJ Lee -
Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.
Sidney Lumet