Allan Douglass Coleman Quotes

The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Me

• If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • You
  • Space

• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Words

• The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Society
  • Paint
  • Opponents

• I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Life
  • School
  • Kid

• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Player
  • Enough

• From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Risk

• I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Boy

• Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Think
  • Universities
  • Rubbish

• Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

  

  Karen Bender
  • World
  • Writing
  • Enjoy

• No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Short
  • Speech
  • Ever

• Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Problems

• I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Love
  • Support
  • Son

• I love taking chances.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Love
  • Chances
  • Taking

• I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
  • Childhood
  • Lucky

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Long
  • Character
  • Funny

• I used to say I represented 33% of the strategic reserve of physicists in Congress.

  

  Bill Foster

• You take your shots when you have them, and I threw a lot of touchdowns, but I'm always going to take care of the football in the red zone.

  

  Jared Goff
  • Football
  • Red

• I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Thinking
  • Singing
  • Influence

• I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes

• Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

  

  Allan Douglass Coleman
  • Past
  • Eyes
  • Eye