Alex Graves Quotes

Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

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• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Best
  • Politics
  • Cards

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Up
  • Real
  • Dream

• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Feel
  • Very
  • Close

• I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • World
  • Business
  • Book

• It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Country
  • Children

• Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Death
  • Change

• The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Inspiration
  • Sun
  • Gym

• You can't impose a legacy.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • You
  • Legacy
  • Impose

• I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Book
  • True
  • Me

• I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

  

  Jack Black
  • Like
  • See
  • Just

• My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Acting

• I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • World
  • America

• Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • North

• My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Up

• Well 'Monday Night Football,' I think the players kind of like it because they like the attention, and it's a lot of attention. But on the other hand, it's a disruption of the routine we used to have to play on Monday night. If you're a player, you sit around all day waiting for a game. It's different than when you play at noon.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Different
  • Game
  • Night

• It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

  

  Chris Cleave
  • Different
  • Done
  • Small

• I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• It doesn't matter how big or small your film is: you still don't have enough money. You don't have enough time to shoot it.

  

  James Wan
  • Time
  • Money
  • Small

• Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

  

  Alex Graves
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