Alan Taylor Quotes

There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.

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• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Taken
  • Games
  • Nothing

• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Sometimes
  • Write

• I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Lying
  • Said

• This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Deep

• People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • People
  • Good
  • Relationship

• Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fall

• Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Dance
  • Stage
  • Just Because

• I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Think
  • Line
  • Often

• For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Good
  • Food
  • Best

• Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Pain
  • Baby
  • Tired

• Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Good
  • Beginning

• Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• I'm a real hoarder.

  

  Lily James
  • Real

• All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Lonely
  • Loneliness

• On a number of occasions, I have made it clear that Sinn Fein policy was to argue for the establishment of an independent, international truth commission.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • Truth
  • Independent

• I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Study
  • Philosophy
  • Reflection

• I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it's 'Transformers 2' or 'Shrek 5', or it's yet another iteration of another kind of clone of something else. It's a bit depressing in a way.

  

  Joe Abercrombie
  • Interesting

• There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.

  

  Alan Taylor