Alan Oliveira Quotes

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Alan Oliveira

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• It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Long
  • Way
  • Back

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Lord
  • Now
  • Brighton

• I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Colleagues

• Such a gift might be easily taken back again.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Taken
  • Gift
  • Back

• I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Very
  • Relationships

• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Think

• There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Family
  • Father
  • Rich

• It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Love
  • Wind

• My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Relationship
  • Taken
  • Year

• I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Money
  • Proud
  • Enemy

• It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Protection

• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Selfish

• If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Remember
  • Alcohol

• Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.

  

  Sallust

• Kristol's warning that neoconservatives could go to Kerry was an admission of what many have long recognized. The neoconservatives are not really conservatives at all. They are impostors and opportunists.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Long

• The path that leads from the persona to the self, from the adult to the outlaw, consists of learning to distinguish between false desire and true desire, or superficial desire and profound desire, or obsessive desire and free passion, … or illusory needs and real needs.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Real
  • True
  • Free

• Patriotism ruins history.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• Successful investment is a battle for financial survival.

  

  Gerald M. Loeb
  • Survival
  • Battle
  • Investment

• In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.

  

  David Wenham
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Dark

• When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spite your face.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Perspective
  • Cutting

• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Television
  • Visual

• Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Created
  • Demand
  • Production

• What I have to show, I show on the track.

  

  Alan Oliveira