Billy Lawrence Quotes

I used to search and search for that actor or actress who's exactly what's in my head. But you have to realize you have to cast whoever's super talented and super funny, and then the character has to become at least partially theirs.

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• It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Me
  • Always
  • Thing

• It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Song
  • Creative
  • Begin

• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Power
  • Learned
  • Market

• In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Want
  • Value
  • Wealth

• From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Good
  • America
  • Positive

• I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Feel
  • Trick

• One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Daily
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • High
  • Worry
  • motivation

• If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • People
  • Art
  • Single

• It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • True
  • Player

• We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Good
  • Children
  • Business

• Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • School
  • Bad
  • Learning

• I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Leaving

• I play on all the consoles, but Xbox, mostly. I'm versatile, though, so whatever's going on, I'll take care of it.

  

  Jason Kidd

• What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Nature
  • Jesus

• I've done interviews with actors who I've worked with who I really like, and I'm like, "Wow, look at you. You're just going on . . . You don't even know what you're saying!"

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Done
  • Looks
  • Actors

• In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Time
  • Mind

• Until the last nuclear weapon is eliminated, more must also be done to reduce the risk of a detonation. Nuclear-armed states should reduce the number of warheads on high alert and be clearer about the actions they are taking to prevent accidents.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Done
  • High
  • Risk

• People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Future
  • Easy
  • Breathe

• I used to search and search for that actor or actress who's exactly what's in my head. But you have to realize you have to cast whoever's super talented and super funny, and then the character has to become at least partially theirs.

  

  Billy Lawrence
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Realizing