Sydney Biddle Barrows Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
-
Action is the foundational key to all success.
-
We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
-
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
-
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
-
I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
-
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
-
You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
-
If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
-
When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
-
Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.
-
I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
-
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
-
My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.
-
I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.
-
I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
-
Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.
-
No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
-
In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
-
Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.
-
We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
-
We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.
-
I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.
