Albert William Upton Quotes

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

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• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Time
  • Best
  • Professional

• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • School
  • Character
  • Period

• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Going
  • Big
  • Most

• Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Up
  • Man

• Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • World
  • Rest
  • Language

• I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Act
  • Citizens
  • Defense

• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Love
  • Reading

• Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Live
  • Nation
  • Ticket

• Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • People
  • May
  • Military

• I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Small
  • Space

• A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Born

• You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Situation

• As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Time
  • Actor

• I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Knowledge
  • Years
  • Last

• 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • World
  • Job

• Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Playing
  • I Think
  • Recording

• I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Friends
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• People ask me, "What is it like?" with a negative tone. But for me, I'm surrounded by the most talented and passionate people in the industry.

  

  Anita Briem
  • People
  • Industry
  • Talented

• I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

  

  Albert William Upton
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Talented