J. Paul Getty Quotes

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

J. Paul Getty

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• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Play
  • Sense
  • Royal

• I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Shoulder
  • Reconstruction

• I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Write

• What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Book
  • Water

• When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Day
  • Walking

• I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Building
  • Supporter
  • PETA

• If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Me
  • Mirror
  • Perception

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Think

• I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Think
  • Day

• I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Give
  • Take

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Gossip

• Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Long
  • Writing

• While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Joy
  • Should
  • Loud

• Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.

  

  Rei Kawakubo
  • Fashion
  • Born
  • Meaning

• The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Military
  • Service

• I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Fight
  • Working
  • Hard

• I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Born
  • Pessimist
  • I Was Born