Richard Stanley Quotes

You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.

Richard Stanley

• People
• Movies
• Situation
• Making

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Problems
  • Stand

• I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • English
  • Intelligence

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Help
  • Free

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.

  

  Sam Simon
  • People
  • Help
  • Animal

• There are as many ways to eat a vegan diet as there are people who discover it. Just about any way you do it, provided you focus on unprocessed foods, include vitamin B

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Focus
  • Vegan

• If you haven't taken a writing class, take a writing class. I took every class that was available in my area. I went to conferences inside and outside my area to network with people. That's how I got my agent. I found my agent through another agent who was at a conference.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • People
  • Writing
  • Taken

• Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

  

  Frank Stella
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

  

  Mary Schmich
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Good
  • Leadership

• Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and compassion. And among artists, there's a lot of Buddhists, people who want an alternative to basic Christianity, which doesn't offer much.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

• The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people - to black people.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • People
  • Pretty

• People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• At the end of the day, I write down an 'L' or a 'W,' whether or not the day was a 'Loss' or if it was a 'Win.' It really bothers you to have to write down an 'L.' An 'L' looks like a day I ate a lot of junk food, or I didn't work out when I was supposed to or train when I was supposed to train, or if I felt that I had a bad performance in the ring.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Food

• If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole reimbursement system which will help in terms of reducing costs and creating the right kind of incentives for savings.

  

  John Hoeven
  • Help

• There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.

  

  Richard Stanley
  • People
  • Movies
  • Situation