William Fichtner Quotes

I like characters where there's something going on and something to make him real. If you find out what somebody cares about, all of a sudden, the whole world opens up.

William Fichtner

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• I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Reflect

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

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Me
  • Say
  • Well

• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Pretty
  • Kind
  • Play

• And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Medicine
  • Personal

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Band

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • American
  • History

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Problems
  • Down

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Done
  • Power

• Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Love
  • Learn
  • For Her

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.

  

  Rae Carson
  • World
  • Think
  • Open-minded

• We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Take
  • Credit
  • Talents

• I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

  

  Cynthia P. Schneider
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• The Aryan Nation, the Klan, all these anti-immigrant groups - they've never really disappeared, and if you think they have, then you've been living in a bubble.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale

• Harry Reid rammed a partisan healthcare bill through the Senate that most Americans didn't want, and now it seems that members of his own staff don't want ObamaCare either.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • Health care

• I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

  

  Karen Handel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Society

• I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

  

  Oswald Mosley

• I like characters where there's something going on and something to make him real. If you find out what somebody cares about, all of a sudden, the whole world opens up.

  

  William Fichtner
  • World
  • Real
  • Character