David Nutter Quotes

As a director, I only know how to do it one way, is to pour my heart and soul into everything.

David Nutter

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• I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Pain

• Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Internet

• The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Me
  • Ambition
  • Personal

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Reading

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• Be yourself, but always your better self.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Yourself
  • Self
  • Be Yourself

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Me
  • Tell
  • Drums

• Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • Choice
  • Writer

• Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• Women inspire me. Women in the airports, around the country in different cities, destinations around the world, inspire me with the way they express their individuality. I love watching women and discovering all the ways each person uses a color, pattern, a style, even a lipstick color. I'm a people watcher.

  

  Camila Alves
  • World
  • Women
  • Style

• I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Want
  • Know
  • Fall

• I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • School
  • Watching
  • Calling

• Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Technology
  • Cutting
  • Choice

• And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within - from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Wish
  • Water
  • Picture

• Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Talent
  • Immortality
  • Requires

• Both 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' and my first novel, 'This One is Mine,' are pretty complex on a story level, and fun reads as a result.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • True
  • Father

• As a director, I only know how to do it one way, is to pour my heart and soul into everything.

  

  David Nutter
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Everything