Oliver Emberton Quotes

One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.

Oliver Emberton

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• I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Enough
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy

• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Better

• I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.

  

  Parker Young
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Food

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

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

  

  Karen Bender
  • World
  • Writing
  • Enjoy

• Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Success
  • Learning

• I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Family
  • Like
  • Others

• Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • You
  • Beginnings

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Moments

• Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Ideas
  • Easy
  • Cheap

• Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Long
  • Everyday
  • Decisions

• There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Writer
  • Mystery
  • Point

• Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • College
  • New York

• We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Remember
  • Green
  • Big

• I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Right
  • Matters
  • Awards

• I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Kind

• But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Another
  • Vegetarian
  • Guess

• We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Women
  • Trying

• Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Mind
  • Professional
  • Athlete

• One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.

  

  Oliver Emberton