Richard Preston Quotes

I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear.

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• I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Picture
  • Techniques
  • Fashions

• Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Help

• I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Go
  • Surfing
  • Too Much

• I could have coached better.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Better
  • Could
  • Coached

• I'm super excited about gaming always. That's the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I'm surfing if I'm not already playing a game at night.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Game
  • Night
  • Surfing

• I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing - that's what I'm trying to say.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Surfing

• With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Growing
  • Crazy
  • Horse

• There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.

  

  Kelly Slater
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• Whether it's in America, Quebec, or France, if I can tell a story that takes me out of my comfort zone, then I'm surfing.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • America
  • Surfing

• The experience of seeing a surf movie in the 1970s, as a teenager, and the energy in those theatres, was amazing. It was the only way to see people surfing. These guys would go out and make these surf movies and bring them to four-wall theatres. It was an incredible experience that I'll never forget.

  

  Chris Carter
  • People
  • Experience
  • Movie

• Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Taken

• Besides writing music and surfing, I like to simply chill with my friends. Watching movies and going out to eat are often my prime choices for a day off.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Friends

• I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Passion

• When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I've always had fun in South Africa.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Surfing

• I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Party
  • Surfing

• When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called 'Surfing the Menu,' and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun.

  

  Curtis Stone
  • Fun
  • Opportunity
  • Wine

• The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.

  

  John Slattery
  • Surfing

• Surfing is my great passion in Hawaii.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Surfing

• It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Done
  • Period
  • Tools

• Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.

  

  Nancy Lancaster
  • House
  • Personality
  • Architecture

• It's a place I'll always remember, and I have nothing bad to say about New England. I love that place.

  

  Logan Mankins
  • Remember
  • Bad

• My last name is Wellsley, but a lot of people say it's Lowendowski, which is my mother's last name, and I had it changed to my father's when I was 18.

  

  Cory Wells Three Dog Night
  • People
  • Mother
  • Father

• I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Surfing
  • Could
  • Techniques