Hugh Evans Quotes

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

Hugh Evans

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• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Pity

• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
  • Balkans

• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Acting
  • Living
  • Creating

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Chance

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Great
  • Mind

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hope

• My daily diet consists of basically anything I think looks tasty, whether that's pizza, sushi, burgers, quesadillas. I like everything.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Think
  • Daily
  • Pizza

• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • America
  • Hope

• I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Kind

• I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Strong
  • Politics
  • Need

• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Fear

• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Why
  • Art

• It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Age
  • Famous
  • Rich

• Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Eyes
  • Smile

• A President cannot always be popular.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Popular
  • President

• Justice will be servedAnd the battle will rageThis big dog will fightWhen you rattle his cage.And you'll be sorry that you messed withThe U.S. of A.'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass,It's the American way.

  

  Toby Keith
  • American
  • Justice
  • Dog

• It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Men
  • Science

• No bodyguards, no fuckin' Lear jets, no fuckin' tour bus, no 50 people following you around every day. We all had to go away from each other and the music industry for a while.

  

  Mike Inez Black Label Society
  • People
  • Music
  • Bus

• History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

  

  Hugh Evans
  • Song
  • Action
  • Simple