Todd English (William Todd English) Quotes

I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.

Todd English

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• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Love
  • Medicine

• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • New York
  • Week

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Technology
  • Will

• I dream about doing a film about once a week.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dream
  • Doing
  • Week

• I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Like

• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Cleaning

• You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Yourself

• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Enemy
  • U.S.
  • Met

• Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Women
  • Industry
  • Unhappy

• Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• We all have our own narrative of what human trafficking is supposed to be, but if you do a little research, human trafficking happens, in many different forms and shapes, right in our backyard.

  

  Du Yun
  • Different

• I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Work
  • Different
  • Done

• There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Money
  • America
  • Cities

• Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • World
  • Music
  • Real

• Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.

  

  Todd English
  • Different
  • Feels
  • Cities