Arthur Plotnik Quotes

Empowerment comes from precision, precision, precision; from language that harpoons the exact meaning, the nuance, for the intended audience.

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• Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Future
  • Eyes
  • Present

• Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • High
  • Water

• I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Choose

• People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Too Much

• I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Going

• People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • People
  • Same
  • Courtesy

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Life
  • Long
  • Man

• It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • American
  • War

• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Mind
  • Done
  • War

• If I don't create, I don't exist.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Create
  • Exist

• Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Mom
  • Fans

• There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Colour

• I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Job
  • Never
  • Needed

• I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Hate
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Movies
  • Looking
  • Editing

• Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Everything
  • Very

• I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Hate
  • Shopping
  • Run

• The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Best
  • Film
  • Director

• At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Funny
  • Mad

• In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • School
  • Character
  • Law

• Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Character
  • Jokes
  • Formulas

• A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

  

  Gerry Spence
  • Promise
  • Criminals
  • Desperation

• Empowerment comes from precision, precision, precision; from language that harpoons the exact meaning, the nuance, for the intended audience.

  

  Arthur Plotnik
  • Audience
  • Empowerment
  • Precision