Vance Havner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
-
People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
-
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
-
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
-
I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
-
I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
-
I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
-
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
-
I'm more interested in producing than acting.
-
What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
-
I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
-
I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
-
You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
-
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
-
When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
-
Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
-
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
-
There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
-
I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
-
Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
-
It's not that I'm racist or anything, because I'm not, but I just don't think we should be wasting our time helping people that are going to die soon anyway.
-
I'm thrilled its over. I can't tell you how many fans from around the country kept asking me if Ted and Mike wanted to start over with their own quarterback. I kept telling them that was not the case. We have a young team, and his experience and leadership and enthusiasm for the game are huge for us. So I'm delighted.
-
My only two weapons: time and silence.
-
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
