Milos Forman Quotes

For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

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• A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Mother
  • Me

• I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Teaching
  • Without
  • Pity

• I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I'm honored to be celebrating these moments at the Catdance Film Festival.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Funny
  • Moments
  • Honored

• You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Nice
  • Body
  • Everyone

• 'English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country!

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Country
  • English
  • Rose

• I've seen, and liked, 'Insecure' and 'Atlanta.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Seen
  • Insecure
  • Atlanta

• If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • Done
  • Help

• For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed.Will you ever feel ok?

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• It was as the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Rose

• It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Different
  • Book
  • Interesting

• I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.

  

  Elizabeth Banks

• The worst men often give the best advice.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Advice

• 'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

  

  Bill Bradley
  • Great
  • Important
  • Sports

• It was quite a thespian - 'thespy' - sort of household. My mum had a dance school, and my dad now works in a theatre, so I spent a lot of time going to see dance as a young child - it was just a part of who we were.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Time
  • School
  • Dad

• I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Up

• Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.

  

  Chris Crawford
  • Game
  • Trust
  • Betrayal

• Es ist nicht der Kampf der Meinungen, welcher die Geschichte so gewaltthätig gemacht hat, sondern der Kampf des Glaubens an die Meinungen, das heisst der Ueberzeugungen.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Die

• If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

  

  Plutarch
  • Nature
  • Blind
  • Instruction

• Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • First
  • Possible
  • Speaking

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Breathe
  • Speaking