Neil Drumming Quotes

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

Neil Drumming

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• Criticism
• Teach
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• Journalism
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• I don't know what's on the other side.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Know
  • Side
  • Other

• Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • House
  • Me
  • Kind

• Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Value
  • Security
  • Geography

• In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Up
  • Pride
  • Judge

• The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Deception

• I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Me
  • Laugh
  • Jokes

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Body

• There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Myself

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Picture

• You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • You
  • Strength
  • Muscles

• Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Health

• I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Young
  • Go
  • Cinema

• Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Fun
  • Hurt
  • Nobody

• I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Nature

• The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

  

  Jan Karon
  • World
  • Book
  • True

• A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • God

• Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

  

  John Lutz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• I'll have ideas in my head of what I want to say, but I need a beat to inspire me. So I would just say something as simple as, "Can you try something at 103 BPM with a reversed hi-hat and use an electric piano?" And then it just grows from that.

  

  Louise Harman
  • Simple

• Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

  

  Neil Drumming
  • Writing
  • Criticism
  • Teach