M. Night Shyamalan Quotes

I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

M. Night Shyamalan

• Work
• Decision
• Protect
• Conform

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• First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Difficult
  • Need
  • Tools

• I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Listen
  • Watch

• As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Start
  • Ready
  • Busy

• When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Done
  • True
  • Dialogue

• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Christian

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Difficult

• When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Know
  • England
  • Meetings

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • American
  • Dream
  • Myself

• When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Work
  • Travel
  • Holiday

• I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • Never
  • Bedroom

• I need my fill of Indian home cooking.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Home
  • Need
  • Cooking

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

  

  Feist
  • Mind
  • End
  • Songwriting

• My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Experience

• The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Support

• I'm super athletic and I love to work out, and obviously I need to workout for my industry as well, but I love learning something and developing that skill and feeling strong. Girls who can kick butt are hot.

  

  Jessica Clark
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.

  

  Logan Lerman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect