William Atherton Quotes

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

William Atherton

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Creative
  • Most

• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Creative
  • More

• When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Pretty
  • Eyes
  • Creative

• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Feel

• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Creative

• The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • You
  • Creative
  • Pressure

• A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Cooking

• Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Different
  • Creative
  • Now

• Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Creative
  • New
  • Capitalism

• If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mind
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Skill
  • Nerves
  • Antagonist

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Stop

• Craft is part of the creative process.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Craft

• I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Small
  • Creative

• My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Kids
  • Small
  • Wife

• I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex.

  

  Paul Ince
  • Love
  • Sex
  • Tackling

• I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Land
  • Wilderness
  • Follow Me

• His previous life had been that of the Perfect Ideal Israelite – believing, unquestioning, submissive – in preparation for that which, in His thirteenth year, He had learned as its business. The Baptism of Christ was the last act of His private life; and, emerging from its waters in prayer, He learned: when His business was to commence, and how it would be done.

  

  Alfred Edersheim
  • Life
  • Christ
  • Baptism

• If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

  

  William Atherton
  • Creative
  • Antagonist