Alan Powell Quotes

That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.

Alan Powell

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• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Health
  • Always
  • Poor

• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Creativity

• When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Morning

• I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Business
  • Doing

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Fear
  • Value

• I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Mind
  • College

• Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Up
  • Running
  • Question

• Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• There is no way to undo what happened in the Zimmerman-Martin encounter, but some good can still come of it: it could lead states to repeal their misguided 'Stand your ground' laws.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Good
  • Laws
  • Stand

• We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Kids
  • Support
  • Wife

• When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Mother
  • Deep
  • Electricity

• I'd love to play Wonder Woman.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Door

• That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Same
  • Role
  • Stuck

• Sarbanes-Oxley costs the American people money. It costs jobs. It costs our competitiveness. It hurts our markets.

  

  Mallory Factor
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

  

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue
  • Time
  • Work
  • Focus

• I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Moved

• I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.

  

  Colm O'Rourke
  • Get
  • Cousins
  • Counties

• A very good side playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to.

  

  David Moyes
  • Playing
  • Level
  • Sort

• When we are weak, we can still be strong. When we're under the greatest stress and facing the greatest challenges, it may be the best day of our lives, for God is working to make us into the people he wants us to be.

  

  Casey Treat
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Challenges

• That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.

  

  Alan Powell
  • Challenges
  • To Do
  • Exaggeration