Alan Huffman Quotes

Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.

Alan Huffman

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Day
  • Best

• The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • World
  • American
  • Same

• Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Walking

• Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Tears

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Photography

• People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• To write, you need to find what you love.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Love
  • Write
  • Find

• All actors should experience public failure.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Experience
  • Failure
  • Public

• There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Art
  • You
  • Me

• The khaleesi seems the most fair.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Seems
  • Most
  • Fair

• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Love
  • Born
  • For Her

• Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Why
  • Want
  • Acting

• Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Kind
  • Myself

• I have always respected how Bobby Bowden would go out and challenge any opponent, and he produced some legendary games against the University of Miami and Notre Dame.

  

  James Carville
  • Challenge

• Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Fall
  • Sales
  • Demand

• Harvey, Galileo, Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • Age
  • Law
  • Enlightenment

• I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • College
  • Working

• The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Onstage
  • Microphone
  • Best Time

• Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.

  

  Alan Huffman