Richard Adams Quotes

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

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• Every dude needs a well tailored suit. I'd say well tailored suit, a leather jacket, and a pair of jeans that really fit are vital in your wardrobe.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Jeans
  • Leather
  • Dude

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Way
  • Like
  • Idea

• I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Education
  • Film
  • Training

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Player
  • Vision

• By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Psychology

• I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Music
  • Control

• With a smaller setting, you have a lot more freedom and flexibility within a given moment, but not necessarily the velocity you have with a big band.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Freedom
  • Band

• I'm an average girl with an average family - and I hope people can see that.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • People
  • Family
  • Hope

• I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Guy

• Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Book

• I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Trying
  • Remember

• Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

  

  Kay Granger
  • Life

• I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.

  

  Geoff Stults

• Everyone agrees that our immigration system is broken. Building a wall with Mexico isn't going to fix it.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Wall
  • Building
  • Mexico

• No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of folly and wild madness for any one to set up his thoughts or reasonings in opposition to the plain statements of Holy Scripture; and, on the other hand, it is the beginning and end of all true wisdom to submit in all things to the absolute authority of that Word which is settled forever in Heaven.

  

  Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Forever

• When life hands me lemons I hand them back and pick something else.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Life
  • Hands
  • Lemons

• I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Radiohead
  • Bastards

• Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Thinking
  • Answers
  • Discovery

• You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Thinking
  • Knows
  • Certain