Alfred Worden Quotes

Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

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• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Reading
  • Learn
  • Better

• I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Help
  • Position

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I always have the impression that I write the same book.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Write
  • Same

• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Real
  • Job
  • Month

• What you see is what you get.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • See
  • Get

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Wonderful

• You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • You
  • Moment
  • Diamonds

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Freedom
  • Honor
  • Lonely

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• Pineapple reduces swelling.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Swelling

• Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Beautiful
  • Funny
  • Yourself

• An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Door
  • Devil
  • Walk

• There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great

• You're the pain in my - The hurricane in my - Supersensitive heart, dear. Still I love you, I know, And the reason is merely because You irritate me so!

  

  Cole Porter
  • Heart
  • Pain

• A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Rain
  • Field
  • Cup

• There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Past
  • King
  • Conflict

• I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • Liar

• Doors opened at seven, the show started at eight. In pubs and clubs and house parties across the galaxy, the viewers at home were drunk by six.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Home
  • Show
  • Drunk

• I knew I could have danced if I wanted to, really. But I didn’t, so I didn’t have to. The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on its axis when everyone else is bouncing around.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • People
  • Earth
  • Danced

• Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

  

  Alfred Worden
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