Paddy Considine Quotes

I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

Paddy Considine

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• I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Now

• Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Value

• Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dad

• I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Photographer
  • Magazine

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Sun
  • Inspired
  • Look

• The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ideas
  • Bed
  • Communism

• The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Source

• I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Remember
  • America
  • Girl

• I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • See
  • Silly

• There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Human
  • I Can

• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Good
  • Reality

• We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Up
  • Choice
  • Consequences

• I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • People
  • Power
  • Truth

• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
  • Human

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

  

  David Hume

• What I’ve got to talk about, I don’t think a priest wants to hear. What does a priest know or care about secular concerns? All they want to talk about is God. All they want to hear is a tidy list of sins so that they can prescribe their penances and get on to the next customer.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • God

• Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Bible

• Some people associate red with love, but to me, red is for an earlier stage of a relationship. Black is much deeper, to me. It's certainly the sexiest color.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • People
  • Black
  • Relationship

• I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying