William Feather Quotes

Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.

William Feather

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• Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Me
  • Say
  • Well

• If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fall
  • Horse
  • Backup

• In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Give
  • Finished

• I need instant gratification.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Need
  • Instant
  • Gratification

• My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Make
  • Plan
  • Canada

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Man
  • Worst
  • Corruption

• Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Looking
  • Going

• I can do whatever I want.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Whatever

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Never
  • Humble

• I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Slice

• Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Media

• With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Possibilities

• I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Home
  • Black
  • Myself

• The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Truth

• When I was writing 'Bad Behavior,' I was very, very quiet. I would just sit there and listen to people. And if I was out in public, I was usually quiet, and people tended to assume I was stupid because I was a young, pretty girl who's quiet.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • Writing
  • Bad

• Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface era. But that's not trendy; that's not hip-hop.

  

  Keri Hilson The Clutch
  • Girl

• There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Children
  • Boy
  • Daughter

• I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

  

  Paula Malcomson
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Opportunity

• Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.

  

  William Feather
  • Girl
  • Intelligent