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

• Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Violence
  • Sex

• No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Manner

• Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'.

  

  George Pattison
  • Obligation
  • Buddhism
  • Mortality

• The focus has to be about making good work. I don't ever want to be hired for a job because I'm a woman. And I don't ever want to be recognized for a job because I'm a woman.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• We hope that uncovering the truth behind Hariri's murder will show people that you can't get away with murder in Lebanon. The international community hopes to see an end to the series of brutal attacks including Chidiac's.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Truth
  • Murder
  • Hariri`s

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

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Technique
  • Stillness
  • Captivating