Owen Wilson Quotes

There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work.

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• It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Black
  • Painting
  • Lie

• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Never

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • House
  • Air
  • Sick

• I am strictly against remaking a movie.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Movie
  • Remaking

• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Work
  • Great
  • History

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • House
  • Ever
  • Transfer

• When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • American
  • First
  • India

• India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Technology
  • Innovation
  • Accountability

• We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • New
  • Old
  • Seek

• I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Know
  • Born
  • Appearance

• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Nothing
  • Happens
  • Inevitable

• I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Sister
  • Three

• Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Country
  • Interesting

• I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Try
  • Just

• I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Problem
  • Tools
  • Data

• I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • Life

• My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Career
  • Careers

• Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Partner
  • Office

• White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.

  

  Jess Row
  • People
  • Trying
  • Color

• I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Enjoy
  • Growing Up
  • Writers

• There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Screen