Renata Adler Quotes

Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

Renata Adler

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• I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Great
  • Speak

• If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • True
  • Know
  • Same

• My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Positive

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Look
  • Said

• Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Good
  • Great
  • Want

• Shopping turns me off.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Me
  • Shopping
  • Off

• The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Age
  • Night
  • Man

• The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from 'Little Britian,' Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who did a show in 1995 I directed, 'Mash and Peas.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • First
  • Show
  • Little

• Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • American
  • You

• The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Exercise
  • Diet
  • Fat

• When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Book
  • Science
  • Boy

• I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• As far as I know, the original 'X-Men' actors will remain in the franchise.

  

  Ben Hardy
  • Men

• Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.

  

  Alison Owen
  • Experience
  • History
  • Alone

• Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• There was no such thing as a solo career in East Germany. You had to get the best orchestra job that you could.

  

  Jan Vogler
  • Job
  • Career

• Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the 7th century: equal rights to education; the right to own and inherit property; to have a voice in the decisions affecting their lives; to be active, engaged, and valued members of society at all levels.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • World
  • Women
  • Society

• People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.

  

  Jessica Ennis Hill
  • Competition
  • Pressure
  • Ultimate

• I think my biggest fear is trying to communicate in Spanish with someone I don't know and them laughing at me or thinking it's awful, but for the most part, people I've encountered just see that I'm trying, and they're helpful. It's helpful to me to communicate with people.

  

  Megan Nicole
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Fear
  • Forward
  • Yesterday