Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes

The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.

Elizabeth Chadwick

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• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• 'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Nature
  • Environmental
  • Days

• My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
  • Appreciation
  • Express

• A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Character
  • Death
  • Blow

• I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Men
  • Song
  • Me

• Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Greek
  • Immortality
  • Seductive

• I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Gun
  • Taking
  • Bought

• There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • People
  • Day
  • Drama

• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • History
  • Doubt
  • Unique

• It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Truth
  • Baby
  • Better

• There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • World
  • Joy
  • Acting

• I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Today
  • Story
  • Information

• I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

  

  Artur Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

  

  Donna Rice
  • Money
  • Job

• The full glory of the hokey pokey is to put your whole self in.

  

  Charlie Peacock
  • Self
  • Glory
  • Put

• Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

  

  Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Easy
  • Hard

• That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Direction