Walter Bender Quotes

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• There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Money
  • Acting

• I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Like
  • Never
  • River

• Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry

• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Job
  • Nice

• The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Serious

• The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

  

  Edie Falco
  • World
  • Long
  • Small

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Focus

• I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Like
  • Listening

• With a sequel you're always trying to get bigger and better.

  

  Breckin Meyer
  • Trying

• I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Music

• I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.

  

  Louis Oosthuizen
  • Life
  • Game
  • Golf

• It was clear that VA was in need of reform, and when the president asked for help, I could not say no. First, I felt I could help, and my private sector experience was relevant. Second, that this was my chance to give back to those that had stepped up to serve our country.

  

  David Shulkin
  • Up
  • Country
  • Experience

• Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

  

  Bob Gunton

• By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.

  

  Nell Newman
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction. I understand that the various collateral consequences of the court-martial conviction will stay on my record forever. I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the U.S.D.B. as the person I was born to be.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Life
  • Live
  • Forever

• What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

  

  John Ciardi
  • Up
  • Trust

• It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Believe
  • Wisdom
  • Betrayal

• I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Space

• I don't really even know what Twitter is. I know that might sound wierd to some people. I don't use social media. I make music, so I use social media... it's more helpful for me when I'm making music than as an actor.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Actors
  • Sound
  • Media

• You could easily tell that hardwork and perseverance go hand in hand with patience. We often hear people say patience is worth it, yet we don't practice it. I did and look how well it worked out for me.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • People
  • Hand
  • Practice

• There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People

• Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.

  

  Walter Bender
  • Cutting
  • Helpful
  • Features