Rhys Darby Quotes

I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.

Rhys Darby

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• I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Serious
  • Intelligent

• Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Singing

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Film
  • Working Hard

• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Often

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Together
  • Road

• I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Better

• I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Never

• This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Live
  • Business

• I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hand
  • Like
  • Thoughts

• Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.

  

  Paracelsus

• I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There will be leaders that inspire young people. I don't think it means that it's over forever, but I'm getting pretty impatient. I'm hoping it comes soon, so that my young people can know that experience that we knew in the '60s, and that the World War II generation knew during the '40s.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to discover what it is all about ... It is even more important when scientists are called upon to play their part in the world of affairs, as is happening to an increasing extent.

  

  William Lawrence Bragg
  • World
  • Important
  • Should

• I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Work
  • Serious
  • Depression

• I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • People
  • Lying
  • Reader