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.

Nelson Shanks

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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

• Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• 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

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• 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

• The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Why

• Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Great
  • Running
  • Attention

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

  

  Alan Dundes
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 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