Ned Yost Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
-
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
-
I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
-
I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
-
I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
-
I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
-
My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
-
I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
-
We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
-
I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
-
I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
-
That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
-
As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
-
Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.
-
I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too.
-
One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
-
My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
-
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
-
The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
-
If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.
-
I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.
-
Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.
-
What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.
-
It's more of a reward to him for doing such a great job down there.
