William Overgard Quotes

Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking.

William Overgard

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• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Small
  • Movies

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
  • Because
  • Shakespeare

• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Way

• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happens

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Rest

• I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Universe

• Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Action
  • Enemy
  • Coincidence

• Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.

  

  Edgar Cayce

• Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Free
  • Focus
  • Fire

• I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Done

• There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

  

  Connie Francis
  • True
  • Friend
  • Italian

• I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so many opportunities that I wasn't scoring.

  

  Christen Press
  • Goals

• Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Work
  • Society

• I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because life is defined by struggle, it's kind of the perfect microcosmic experience to explore that. 'Here we are, struggling.' It's about people persevering and persevering and persevering.

  

  Chris Pine
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• You get very comfortable doing the open mic circuit, turning up to the same places and playing to 20 people. In that situation, it won't matter if you aren't great on that night because no one will really remember who you are. Then suddenly you are doing rooms to 400 people and you have to up your game.

  

  Pippa Evans
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Beautiful

• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Emotion

• Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Thinking
  • Forgotten
  • Property

• Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking.

  

  William Overgard
  • Thinking
  • Drinking
  • Leads