Nelson Shanks (John Nelson Shanks) Quotes

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Confident

• I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Infantry

• You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Live
  • You
  • Moment

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Well
  • Arts
  • Thrive

• The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Men
  • She

• I never grew up seeing women that looked like me in magazines or on TV and didn't feel like I had a place in the world of fashion. I am honoured to be part of that change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mother
  • Story
  • Year

• Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • True
  • Worry
  • Yourself

• Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.

  

  Jack Keane
  • She
  • Strong
  • Security

• My general taste is towards the melancholy.

  

  Washed Out
  • Taste
  • Melancholy
  • General

• No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.

  

  Artur Schnabel

• I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

  

  Joanna Lumley

• For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life
  • Women
  • Hope

• I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Ethics

• Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • God
  • English
  • Bloody

• I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was shoot really high quality film, so I got into time-lapse photography - so that means when you shoot a flower, you're shooting, like, one frame every twenty minutes, so that's basically two seconds of a film per day.

  

  Louie Schwartzberg
  • Time
  • Nature
  • High

• I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Free
  • Fashion
  • Hair

• Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

  

  Nelson Shanks
  • Quality
  • Fake
  • Realism