David Trubridge Quotes

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

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• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Different
  • Free
  • News

• An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Together
  • Heroic
  • Epic

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Run
  • Going
  • Away

• When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Different
  • Think
  • Want

• Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Jesus
  • Fight
  • Grace

• My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • First
  • Basics

• Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Parents

• The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Cold
  • Wind
  • Sky

• It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Fear
  • Question

• This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

  

  James Agee
  • Sky

• Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning about China because it's China, and they're big, and they're more concerning. But the best global companies are ones that are nuanced.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

• The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Great
  • Past
  • Freedom

• Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

  

  Jim Palmer
  • Smart

• People always want me to talk about Wonder Woman, so I do.

  

  Lynda Carter
  • People
  • Wonder

• The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Time
  • World
  • Rock

• With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.

  

  Janet Weiss
  • Good
  • Power
  • Song

• I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

  

  Doug Liman
  • People
  • Action
  • Dumb

• Border collies predate the British Kennel Club. They've been bred consistently for 100 years. They're the last working dogs in the world, with some minor exceptions. Bench shows, dog shows have ruined the other breeds, like the hunting dogs. Border collies are peasant dogs, and that's protected them.

  

  Donald McCaig
  • World
  • Dog
  • Hunting

• You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Father
  • You
  • Perfect

• I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Hate

• Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes. But would I claim it as God? I would say no.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • God
  • May
  • Energy

• And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

  

  Erika Slezak
  • People
  • Leaving
  • Television

• I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

  

  David Trubridge
  • Leaving
  • Simplicity
  • Delicate