Richard Stanley Quotes

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

Richard Stanley

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• Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Mistake
  • Service
  • Honesty

• On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Love
  • Days
  • Cut

• I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Time
  • Society
  • Anniversary

• The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • People
  • Long
  • Home

• That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Training
  • Doing
  • Chicago

• You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Me

• When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Comedy

• It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Long
  • Said
  • Difference

• I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.

  

  Valerie June
  • Song
  • Me
  • Down

• If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Religion
  • Sound
  • Say

• Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • You
  • Beginnings

• The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Fun
  • Management
  • Workplace

• I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Party

• I'm fearless, to a degree.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Fearless
  • Degree

• I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
  • Rest
  • Language
  • Yourself

• I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Great
  • Power
  • Red

• Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

  

  Simon Schama
  • Never
  • Jews
  • Separate

• I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You gotta remember, in New York I would go up for something, I would sit, and in the room would be Matthew Modine, Matthew Broderick, Andrew McCarthy, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Bacon.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • New

• I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

  

  Hayley Hasselhoff
  • Truthful
  • Hayley Hasselhoff

• You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Technology
  • Singer
  • Drummer

• I thought I'd be a low-key producer or something, politics and film at the same time. But also, I'm not a big movie person - my girlfriend gets mad at me because I go to sleep whenever we go to the movies.

  

  Michael Tubbs
  • Because
  • Girlfriend
  • Producer

• 'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

  

  Richard Stanley
  • Because
  • Getting
  • Hardware