Hailey Abbott Quotes
“She thought about how this summer was small. On the ground, it felt huge, but really, it was just a moment in a series of moments.”
Quotes to Explore
-
I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
-
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
-
I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
-
But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
-
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
-
Focus on remedies, not faults.
-
I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
-
I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
-
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
-
I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.
-
We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
-
I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it's impossible not to duplicate some camera angles.
-
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
-
What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
-
I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
-
Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
-
Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
-
TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
-
I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
-
I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
-
Live in the moment and be present in all that you do. Don't worry yourself with what happened yesterday or what's going to happen tomorrow. Stay focused with what's in front of you.
-
“She thought about how this summer was small. On the ground, it felt huge, but really, it was just a moment in a series of moments.”
