Algis Budrys Quotes

That was the way things worked out: you got a certain fair share of good breaks from life, and you had no right to expect things your way every time.

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Goals
  • Diversity
  • Sales

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Sad
  • Songs
  • Depressing

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Important
  • Transportation

• Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

  

  Iman
  • Alien
  • Multicultural

• I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

  

  Iman
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Creativity

• I'd never hurt another person.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Hurt
  • Person

• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Up
  • Moral
  • Movies

• I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • Nice
  • Clothes

• I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Night
  • Know
  • Sunglasses

• History develops, art stands still.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Art
  • History
  • Still

• When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Child

• I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Habit
  • Bored

• When I come up with a melody in my head, it could be anywhere: in the shower, on the plane, in bed - often when I'm on the go. I'll record it on my phone with my own voice, humming. When I get to the studio, I check which melodies work.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Up
  • Work

• I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

  

  David Gross

• I love my work. It's been good to me.

  

  Carl Kasell
  • Good
  • Work

• Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance you must keep moving.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Balance

• I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

  

  Dominick Dunne
  • Society

• In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.

  

  Lisa Guerrero
  • Time

• That was the way things worked out: you got a certain fair share of good breaks from life, and you had no right to expect things your way every time.

  

  Algis Budrys
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