Allan Dwan Quotes

I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Funny

• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mud

• I'm in a constant state of gratitude.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Gratitude
  • State
  • Constant

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Different
  • Real

• We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Attention
  • Pay Attention

• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • God
  • Forever
  • Bus

• Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Family
  • House
  • Parents

• Our career had a sort of funny shape.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Career
  • Funny
  • Shape

• Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Strong
  • Government
  • China

• I'm a runner first before anything else.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • First
  • Anything
  • Before

• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Childhood
  • Appalling

• I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taken

• When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Important
  • Help
  • Guy

• I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Peace

• Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

  

  John Ford
  • People
  • Art
  • Eyes

• I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes and some colour to my face, as without it, I look pale and uninteresting.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Eyes
  • Pink

• He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• If some day you're struggling with math, and you think, 'I don't think I can do this,' you can - you actually can. Everybody has their hard days - I definitely had mine - and you get through them, and you learn from that stumble, and then you're onto the next problem.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Math

• I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.

  

  Allan Dwan
  • Eyes