Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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• If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Bad
  • Look
  • Same

• It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Dream

• When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Bad
  • Unique
  • Watch

• I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Bad
  • English

• I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Moment

• It's a very strange experience being on set of 'Breaking Bad;' you never know what's coming next for your character. I feel like I don't even know if I'm going to live through the next scene I'm in. It's exciting to work on.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Work
  • Live
  • Character

• That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Me

• In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Feminist

• I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Good
  • Family
  • Business

• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Bad
  • Change

• I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Earth

• The Democrats' foreign policy is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. The migration and foreign policy advocated by the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump, is good for Europe and vital for Hungary.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Trump

• Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• What we have to be careful is that if we drop interest rates where the rate of interest is lower than inflation, then savers will not put money in financial savings and move it to gold and real estate, which is bad for India.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Real
  • Money
  • Bad

• I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Think

• I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Trying

• I got to be more careful and more focused with my surroundings, because everybody wants to reach out to me, and I don't know if it's good or bad.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • Good
  • Bad

• Adele is great because she promotes the idea of being happy as you are.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Great
  • She
  • Happy

• Six hundred years ago we would have been burned for this. Now, what I'm suggesting is that we've advanced.

  

  John Cleese

• My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn't do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.

  

  James Turrell
  • Mother
  • Stupid

• When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

  

  Linda Grant
  • Powerful

• When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness.

  

  Anthony Ray Hinton
  • Bad
  • Goodness
  • Hang On