Richard Madden Quotes

I trained three or four days a week for two and a half months, before they'd even let me near the real dress. And I destroyed two practice dresses completely. They were just ripped to shreds. They looked like cats had gotten a hold of them.

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• For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Confidence
  • Preparation

• Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Different
  • Identity
  • Stand

• I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Change
  • Grow

• Trump is a systemic stress test.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Trump
  • Stress

• Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

  

  Ben Harper
  • True
  • Play
  • Genetics

• I don't work at being ordinary.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Ordinary

• Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

  

  C. P. Scott
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Face

• I have got a reputation to protect.

  

  Ian McLeod

• This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Notebook
  • Curb
  • Dime

• Each shooting day is a big challenge, but it's also fun.

  

  Baran Odar
  • Fun
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• O, had I but followed the arts!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Artist

• I try to just take in every moment of being alive.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Moment
  • Being Alive

• Why would you expect people who don't know any history to be able to report on history? Why would you expect people who are shallow and report only today's exciting story, to be followed by tomorrow's exciting story, to have any sense of depth or any sense of background?

  

  Sean Hannity
  • People
  • Today
  • Exciting

• Even if I have to work, scheduling breaks where I disconnect from technology can be beneficial.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Technology
  • Even
  • Breaks

• The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.

  

  George Will
  • Political
  • Communication
  • Dancer

• Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Important
  • Judging
  • Permit

• There is a premium on conformity, and on silence. Enthusiasm is frowned upon, since it is likely to be noisy. The Admiral had caught a few kids who came to school before class, eager to practice on the typewriters. He issued a manifesto forbidding any students in the building before 8:20 or after 3:00—outside of school hours, students are "unauthorized." They are not allowed to remain in a classroom unsupervised by a teacher. They are not allowed to linger in the corridors. They are not allowed to speak without raising a hand. They are not allowed to feel too strongly or to laugh too loudly. Yesterday, for example, we were discussing "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars/ But in ourselves that we are underlings." I had been trying to relate Julius Caesar to their own experiences. Is this true? I asked. Are we really masters of our fate? Is there such a thing as luck? A small boy in the first row, waving his hand frantically: "Oh, call on me, please, please call on me!" was propelled by the momentum of his exuberant arm smack out of his seat and fell on the floor. Wild laughter. Enter McHabe. That afternoon, in my letter-box, it had come to his attention that my "control of the class lacked control.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Teacher
  • Silence
  • Students

• I trained three or four days a week for two and a half months, before they'd even let me near the real dress. And I destroyed two practice dresses completely. They were just ripped to shreds. They looked like cats had gotten a hold of them.

  

  Richard Madden
  • Destroyed
  • Dresses
  • Months