Dave Draper Quotes

Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.

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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • Live
  • Simple

• People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Nice

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Up
  • Live
  • Children

• It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Nice
  • Always
  • See

• Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Nice
  • Like
  • Kid

• I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Nice
  • Find

• I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Nice

• I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Home
  • Nice

• The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter cousin.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Night

• Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Couple

• In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Children
  • Home
  • Nice

• Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Dedication

• Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Nice

• I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Look
  • Back
  • Confusing

• You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

  

  LeBron James
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• There are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it. I had a checkered early career with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about. Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• I cannot do politics under someone else's control.

  

  Mikhail Prokhorov
  • Control
  • Politics

• I've always been drawn to raw material.

  

  Alice Ripley

• Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.

  

  Dave Draper
  • Nice
  • Simple
  • Intense