Michael Mosley Quotes

The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for the character. And then as you get further up, they'll be the ones reading with you in front of the network.

Michael Mosley

• Reading
• Characters
• Director
• Meetings
• Casting

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• We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Reading
  • Star
  • Information

• I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Message

• My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Family
  • School
  • Art

• I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Reading
  • Lot
  • Shanghai

• I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Reading
  • Writer

• There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Creative

• Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Reading

• I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Reading
  • Loved

• Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Live
  • You
  • Reading

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• 'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Adventure

• When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Important
  • You
  • Reading

• When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Meeting

• You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Know
  • Characters

• Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Greatest

• Difficult folk, these women!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Women
  • Difficult
  • Folk

• Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

  

  Kevin Durant
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Basketball

• Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Men
  • True
  • Rest

• Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Men
  • Funny

• You think about when you're with your friend, and you hang out with your friend. And then you go do whatever you're doing, your life. You know, and then you see your friend again. But for us, we were friends that, we would be together, and then we would go to work, which was us still again, so we were always together.

  

  Ad-Rock The Beastie Boys
  • Life
  • Together
  • Friend

• The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for the character. And then as you get further up, they'll be the ones reading with you in front of the network.

  

  Michael Mosley
  • Reading
  • Characters
  • Director