William Feather Quotes

BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.

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• You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Effort

• At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Day
  • End

• Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Interesting

• In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Grandparents

• Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

  

  Mark Leyner
  • People
  • Trying
  • Purpose

• I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.

  

  Matt Harvey

• I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies.

  

  Big Sean
  • Single
  • Singing

• My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.

  

  Kiran Bedi

• If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.

  

  Philip Levine

• I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Sports
  • Tennis

• Failure is always an option.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Failure
  • Option

• It's funny, because 'Arrested Development' is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called 'Quintuplets' for a season for Fox, and this was while 'Arrested Development' was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.

  

  Andy Richter
  • Different
  • Funny

• I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • Food

• Economic activity can help repair war-torn societies, but if it's not conducted responsibly, it can also create or prolong violence. Companies and international organisations must help strengthen communities and overcome the trauma of violence.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • War
  • Help
  • Violence

• When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.

  

  Billie Whitelaw
  • Different
  • Real
  • Done

• The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Success

• If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.

  

  John Niven

• Who applies for that job? Who says 'I want to work in lost luggage'? You don't have a good day. That's like having a job emptying port-a-potties. You're just going to catch crap all day long.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Democracy
  • Capitalism
  • Mechanism

• To represent your country is something you always dream of. He's good enough to play, but we see him in there every day working with the elastic bands, just trying to survive.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Country
  • Dream
  • Play

• When I ask candidates to tell me about their weaknesses, I am hoping for a wise, honest, and self-confident answer. When I hear a candidate rationally admit a weakness, I am impressed. When I hear a candidate duck the question with language straight out of a book, I start thinking about the next candidate.

  

  Eric Sink
  • Language
  • Candidates
  • Weaknesses

• I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Time
  • Morality

• People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

  

  Michael Birch
  • People
  • Daughter
  • Accounts

• BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.

  

  William Feather
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