Allan Carr Quotes

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

Allan Carr

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• Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Together
  • Software
  • Apple

• I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Love

• Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Discrimination

• This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • First

• I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Work
  • Career
  • Never

• People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Comedy
  • Stage
  • Show

• Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

  

  Karen O
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I've always taken direction pretty well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Pretty
  • Taken
  • Always

• When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Together
  • Change
  • Difference

• However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Pretty
  • Way
  • Me

• Don't let other people tell you what you want.

  

  Pat Riley
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Today
  • Strong
  • Land

• My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

  

  Lanford Wilson
  • September
  • Traumatized
  • New Yorkers

• I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Why
  • Yourself

• Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.

  

  Etienne Wenger
  • Ability
  • Poem
  • Participation

• To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

  

  James Stephens
  • Practice
  • Preparation

• I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Hate

• You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing 'Batman' was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, 'No, it's like holding a big-ass diamond that you can't break. You can throw him against the ceiling, against the floor, anywhere, and you just can't break Batman.'

  

  Frank Miller
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Character

• Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Up
  • Past
  • Celebrity

• I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

  

  Allan Carr
  • Celebrity