Edward J. Flanagan Quotes

Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.

Edward J. Flanagan

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Body
  • Human

• I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Popular

• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Actually

• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Great
  • Sports
  • Win

• I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • People
  • World
  • High

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
  • Food
  • Model

• I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Action
  • Care
  • Actor

• I don't like concrete jungles.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Like
  • Concrete

• Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Men
  • Cold
  • Pants

• At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.

  

  Keith Coogan
  • Work
  • Small
  • Mom

• I am proud of my heritage and my family.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Family
  • Proud

• One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Empathy

• Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • She
  • Peace

• I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

  

  Brian Celio
  • God
  • Home
  • Heaven

• Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Years
  • Artists
  • Over

• I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at least I don't - so best to blunder on making fresh ones.

  

  Charles Saatchi
  • Remember
  • Stupid

• Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.

  

  Edward J. Flanagan
  • God
  • Beginning
  • Confusion