Finn Wittrock Quotes

A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

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• So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • School
  • Education
  • Religious

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • Help
  • Direction

• There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Opportunity

• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Time
  • Age
  • Taken

• I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Feeling
  • Running
  • Far

• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • God
  • Religion
  • Insult

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • California
  • Places
  • Software

• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Trust
  • Strange
  • Grow

• Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Art
  • Past
  • Feeling

• Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • You
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• A little man often cast a long shadow.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Long
  • Man
  • Shadow

• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• In New York, I am barely recognised, or people don't really care. When I go to Portugal, I go outside to a public place and am recognised constantly.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • New York
  • Recognised
  • Portugal

• This death expert said it's everything underground that makes grass so green. That dead things make the living. I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Death
  • Hear
  • Grass

• The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Control
  • Alone

• Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Serious
  • Hands

• A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Death
  • Director
  • Reaction