Nancy Kline Quotes

Real help is different. Real help, professionally or personally, consists of listening to people, of paying respectful attention to people so that they can access their own ideas first.

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• For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • You
  • Never
  • Sex

• Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • Me
  • Accept

• I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Business
  • Running

• A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • People
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Age
  • Grateful

• With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Worry
  • Adapt
  • Global Warming

• I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Success

• I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Life
  • Always
  • Explore

• In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Down

• I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • World
  • Reason
  • Loved

• The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Mind
  • May

• Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Back
  • Integration

• At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Family
  • Honor
  • Grandfather

• There's alcohol in plant and tree.It must be Nature's planThat there should be in fair degreeSome alcohol in Man.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Plant

• Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Up
  • Suffering
  • Prayer

• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • God
  • May
  • Tree

• Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • People

• Looking back to 5-6, we talked at that time that if we lost another game we'd be out. Trying to win five straight is a tough deal, but our guys seemed to understand what it would take. We went back to the basics.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Passion

• And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.

  

  Joel Coen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Universe
  • Mystery
  • Sexual Love

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• Real help is different. Real help, professionally or personally, consists of listening to people, of paying respectful attention to people so that they can access their own ideas first.

  

  Nancy Kline
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Access