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

• 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

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

  

  Carl Kasell
  • Good
  • Work

• The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.

  

  Jason Scott Lee
  • Time
  • Work
  • Energy

• I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

  

  Peter Bichsel
  • World

• What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Exploring
  • Dropping

• The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Well

• My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

  

  Brad Garrett
  • Life

• I'm not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Live
  • Want
  • Financial

• For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.

  

  Werner Herzog
  • Moments
  • Feelings
  • Principles

• 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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