Amma Asante Quotes

Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.

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• Isolationism is over.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Over
  • Isolationism

• It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Long
  • Movie

• Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Culture
  • Training
  • Comfortable

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• What a piece of garbage this smart car is. There's a commercial - the smart car has zero percent interest for six years. Well, good, I got zero percent in six years in buying this smart car. I'll tell you that much. I mean, it's ridiculous. My buddy has a smart car, totaled it. He hit a deer tick.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Car
  • Smart

• I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.

  

  Yuna
  • Always
  • Anything
  • Before

• My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Work
  • Community
  • Training

• Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Freedom
  • Respect
  • Value

• It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • True
  • Stop

• Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Imagine

• I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Think
  • Discipline
  • Down

• Where is Winnie the Pooh without it's illustrations?

  

  Ralph Steadman

• As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People

• Pure as the snow the summer sunNever at noon hath look'd upon, -Deep, as is the diamond wave,Hidden in the desart cave, -Changeless, as the greenest leavesOf the wreath the cypress weaves, -Hopeless, often, when most fond,Without hope or fear beyondIts own pale fidelity, -And this woman's love can be!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Deep

• A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Truth

• As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • True

• The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• Your retirement comes before your children's tuition. That's because there's no financial aid for retirement, and there's still a good deal available for college.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Good
  • Children
  • College

• I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop.

  

  Christian Bale
  • People
  • Why
  • Character

• When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Stop
  • City
  • Walking

• I was just so nervous every time I was onstage. It took me many, many years to get to the point where I realized, 'All right, if I'm going to keep doing this, I've gotta remember that it's supposed to be fun. I've gotta stop putting so much pressure on myself, because otherwise, it's not worth it.' And I still am too critical of myself.

  

  Dave Franco
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Fun

• Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.

  

  Amma Asante
  • Stop
  • Treat
  • Comma