Terry Zwigoff Quotes

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.

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• I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Guitar

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Own

• True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • True
  • Father
  • Man

• Being a teenager is hard.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Being
  • Teenager
  • Being A Teenager

• Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

  

  Origen
  • Know
  • Justice
  • Place

• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

  

  Cyril Connolly

• All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Knowledge

• When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • American
  • Red

• When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Together
  • Movie

• I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • Important
  • Logic

• Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.

  

  Alija Izetbegovic
  • Life
  • Insecurity

• Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • God
  • Judge

• I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people... like to eavesdrop on a conversation.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • People
  • Real
  • Light

• There must be an opportunity that matches with our strategy. Just because we have a gap, we don't want to go and acquire anything and everything. What we acquire should fit in with our strategy, human resources and market expectations.

  

  Adi Godrej
  • Opportunity

• I signed up for military service in the months following 9/11, and later, as a military intelligence officer, I felt called, like so many others, to volunteer for deployment and service in Afghanistan.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Up
  • Military
  • Service

• The right wing has monopolized the AM radio airwaves.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

  

  Paula Broadwell
  • Life
  • Up

• You go to see movies to feel something, and being terrified - there's something so fun about that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Feel
  • Movies

• Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Culture
  • Care
  • Contribution

• Would I want Johnny Depp's career? Sure! But do I want all the trappings and all the stuff that comes with that? I don't know. It's a pretty serious trade off. Can you prevent it? Probably not.

  

  Jai Courtney
  • Pretty
  • Career
  • Serious

• Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Environment
  • Green
  • German

• I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.

  

  Terry Zwigoff
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Hurt