Adam Baldwin Quotes

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Adam Baldwin

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• I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Action
  • President
  • Barack Obama

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Singing

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• Drugs scared me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Scared
  • Drugs

• A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Important
  • Want
  • Feel

• Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Business
  • Want
  • Me

• No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Men
  • Me
  • Woman

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Feel
  • Appreciate
  • Ways

• My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Me
  • Always
  • Comfortable

• I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Me

• I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Person

• When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Political
  • Me
  • Sound

• I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Speak

• Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Quality
  • Albums
  • Appearance

• Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • People
  • God
  • True

• I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Wonder
  • Golf
  • Numbers

• All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why kid yourself?

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Kids

• Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Technique
  • Stillness
  • Captivating