Barbara Park Quotes

For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.

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• I always watch the work I do.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Work
  • Always
  • Watch

• People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Real
  • Done
  • Me

• The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Great
  • Age
  • Dream

• I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Memories

• I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Think
  • Me
  • Chance

• I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Sister
  • Birthday
  • Scared

• If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Job
  • Nice

• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Help
  • Society

• How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Violence
  • Persuasion

• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Know

• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
  • Work
  • Step
  • Hard Work

• I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Horror

• We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Fight

• I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Me

• This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Work
  • Office
  • Wait

• Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.

  

  Zach Cregger
  • Work
  • Real
  • Home

• There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Job
  • Sea

• There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.

  

  Duane Michals
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Remember
  • Thought
  • Moment

• Sylvester Stallone is very funny and he's a great guy to hang out with.

  

  Eric Roberts
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Funny

• For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Work
  • Job
  • Dream